12th March - Today's News: Lightning Kills 16 Rwandan Church-goers

At least 16 Rwanda Seventh-Day Adventist churchgoers killed by lightning

In the US, at least two dead as severe overnight thunderstorms batter the Southwest with golf ball-sized hail and 80mph winds

Damaging winds and bushfire cut power to 10,000 WA homes

And in NZ, ex-cyclone Hola hits Northland