(Curlew)– A Curlew man has died after being struck by lightning.
The Palo Alto County Sheriff’s Office says 20-year-old Galen Smith was helping his father in the yard around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday when he was struck by lightning.
Smith was unresponsive when law enforcement and paramedics arrived.
Smith was taken to Palo Alto County Hospital in Emmetsburg where he was pronounced dead.
Sheriff Dennis Goeders says Smith was a mechanical engineering student at Iowa State University.
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