Arsonist strikes Mandurah boat yard

MANDURAH BOAT FIRE Pics Daniel Wilkins Source: PerthNow

POLICE are investigating a fire at a boat yard in Greenfields, near Mandurah, which caused more than $100,000 damage overnight.

Firefighters were called to the property on Panton Road, 3km north of Mandurah, about 1.30am today and extinguished the fire, which damaged three boats.

The arson squad is now investigating the blaze.

It is the second suspected arson at a Mandurah boatyard within a week after a fire destroyed seven boats on March 14, causing $400,000 damage at a nearby boatyard at Mandurah's Spinnaker Quay, Yunderup, just east of the town.  

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A sign? Lightning strikes Vatican

Lightning strikes Vatican

Footage shows St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican being struck by lightning just hours after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation.

God sends mysterious signs

Is the hand of God at play in Pope Benedict's shock resignation?

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation was described as 'like a lightning bolt from a  clear blue sky'. Source: AFP

• Pope's resignation 'a bolt of lightning'
• Bolt of lightning then strikes Vatican
• Reaction: Clergy | Gillard  | Victims' groups | Twitter jokes

POPE Benedict's shock resignation came like "like a lightning bolt in a clear blue sky'' according to one of his senior cardinals.

Then, just hours after the Pontiff dropped the bombshell that he no longer had the health and vigour to carry out his duties as leader of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics, a freak thunderstorm swept over Rome and a lighting bolt struck the basilica of St.Peter's dome.

Thunderstorms are not unknown in winter, but they are more likely to hit the celestial city in spring or summer, which makes the lightning strike even more unusual.

Photographer Filippo Monteforte was in the right place at the right time to capture an image that could be construed as a sign from God.

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As Psalm 29 says:  "The voice of the Lord strikes with flashes of lightning."

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