Lightning kills three students during football training

Penpushing reports that  sources said the incident occurred  on Sunday evening when the students were having a football training session on the school field barefooted with their colleagues on the school’s pitch.

‘The students were practising on the football pitch with their coach preparatory to a tournament. The coach had ended the training session before the rain started but some of the students stayed behind to continue playing football’, a witness said

Penpushing further reports that the eyewitness added that lightning, accompanied by claps of thunderstorms, suddenly enveloped the area and the boys were struck in the process, adding that  a teacher heard the students screaming and running and upon getting to the field.

The witness said the teacher saw at least nine students trembling and jerking on the turf and then raised an alarm, prompting community residents to gather to help the students who were immediately rushed to the school clinic, from where they were taken to a hospital in Awka.

Penpushing also reports that the witness said six of the students were resuscitated, but the three others died, stating that the parents of two of the deceased students had taken the bodies of their children, while one was still in the mortuary.

The witness added that the  Doctor at the  hospital where the students were rushed to, however, noted if the students had boots on, the impact of the lightning would have been minimal, expressed sadness that the victims were playing on the field barefooted, noting that if they had boots on, the impact of the lightning would have been minimal,, while the Anambra State Police Command Public Relations Officer Tochukwu Ikenga  as at the time of this reports said he was not aware of the incident.

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