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Man killed by lightning while boating in Orleans Rough weather hits region hard

A man was killed by a lightning strike yesterday while boating in Orleans, as fierce rainstorms battered New England yesterday.

Captain Chip Burge of the Orleans Fire Department said the man was killed while in his clam boat on Little Pleasant Bay.

The Fire Department received a boat rescue call around 5:35 p.m. and, along with the Orleans harbormaster, found the man dead, alone in his boat, just east of Sipson Island, according to Burge.

The man’s name and age were not released because next-of-kin had not been notified, said Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe.

The identity of the 66-year-old man who made the rescue call from a nearby boat and who was transported to Cape Cod Hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, was also not being released, O’Keefe said. It was not clear last night how the caller was injured.

After finding the victim, the harbormaster towed his boat to the Portanimicut Road Landing, Burge said. Orleans police contacted State Police, who dispatched the Cape and Islands detective unit to investigate, Trooper Eric Benson said.

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This mornings news said that the other boater was transported with chest pain.

This weather has been the pits.