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Bolt from the blue as lightning strikes Vatican

12 February 2013 Last updated at 17:48 Help

Video footage showing lightning striking St Peter's Basilica in Rome has been captured during a thunderstorm.

As Nina Ridge told BBC World's Global programme, winter storms in Rome are not unusual.

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