Highest death toll caused by lightning (indirect strike)

In May 2017, a World Meteorological Organization's committee of experts consisting of climatologists and meteorologists, as well as a physician and a weather historian, announced the highest reported historical death tolls from lightning. On 2 November 1994, during very severe thunderstorms over Dronka, Egypt, a flash of lightning ignited three oil tanks, each holding about 5,000 tons of aircraft or diesel fuel. The railway line holding the tanks collapsed in a flood, and floodwater carried the blazing fuel into Dronka. An official document from the Egyptian Ministry of Health and said that hospitals in the region had received 469 bodies.