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Lightning Strikes 9 Students Playing Football In Anambra, Kills 3 by AnambraPeople: 6:14pm On Nov 05, 2023 |
Lightning strikes 9 students playing football in Anambra, kills 3 Lightning has killed three Senior Secondary School (SS3) students in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra. The incident happened on Saturday. An eye witness told our correspondent that the lightning struck nine male students who were playing football with their peers on the school pitch barefooted. “The students were practicing on the football pitch with their coach preparatory to a football tournament. “The coach had ended the training session before rain started, but some of the students stayed behind to continue playing football. “Lightning, accompanied by claps of thunderstorm suddenly enveloped the area and the boys were struck in the process. “A teacher heard the students screaming and running. He ran to the field and saw at least nine students trembling and jerking on the turf. “That was when he raised the alarm and people gathered to help. The boys were immediately rushed to the school clinic, from where they were taken to hospital in Awka. “Six of the nine boys were resuscitated and are currently receiving treatment, but three did not survive. Their parents have been contacted,’’ the witness told NAN. A resident, Mrs Hope Egwu, told our correspondent that news of the accident went round on Sunday and everyone had been held spellbound. At the hospital in Awka, parents and sympathisers trooped into the ward where the survivors were receiving treatment. A doctor, who requested anonymity, told our correspondent that three out of the nine boys were brought into the hospital dead, but six others were revived. “As of now, parents of two of the dead boys have taken the corpses away, while one is still in the mortuary. “It is sad that they were playing on the field barefooted. If they had boots on, the impact of the lightning would probably have been minimised,’’ he said. When contacted, police spokesman in Anambra, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the incident had not been reported to the police. Speaking on the incident, Prof. Chukwudi Okani, Consultant Pathologist at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka, said it was a natural disaster and not spiritual. Okani said lightning could kill by electrocution through direct strike, side splash or ground current strike. He advised that people should install thunder arrestors in their buildings to stave off electrical current in the event of lightning. https://anambrapeople.com.ng/lightning-strikes-9-students-playing-football-in-anambra-kills-3/ 1 Like |
Re: Lightning Strikes 9 Students Playing Football In Anambra, Kills 3 by Tojan: 6:22pm On Nov 05, 2023 |
Na wa Oo This sounds like a fiction |
Re: Lightning Strikes 9 Students Playing Football In Anambra, Kills 3 by SIXTEENTH(m): 6:22pm On Nov 05, 2023 |
Unfortunately they're caught unaware and unexpected by the lightening bolt, those 3 students might be a future athletes buy sadly they end in such ways but only God knows why. Rest on champ's. |
Re: Lightning Strikes 9 Students Playing Football In Anambra, Kills 3 by SIXTEENTH(m): 6:26pm On Nov 05, 2023 |
Tojan: It's reality bro, this days life is too fragile didn't you read a thread here some days back where someone was discovered at the park leaning and standing towards a wall but death already. |
Re: Lightning Strikes 9 Students Playing Football In Anambra, Kills 3 by Obiedun(m): 6:30pm On Nov 05, 2023 |
Terrible! |
Re: Lightning Strikes 9 Students Playing Football In Anambra, Kills 3 by lordchiz(m): 7:51pm On Nov 05, 2023 |
Omohhhh.....seems thunder dey active on an open field |
Re: Lightning Strikes 9 Students Playing Football In Anambra, Kills 3 by Dikastan: 7:55pm On Nov 05, 2023 |
Chaaaaiiii what a hard luck |
Re: Lightning Strikes 9 Students Playing Football In Anambra, Kills 3 by feggefirstson(m): 8:15pm On Nov 05, 2023 |
That's my Alma Mater. TANSI INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE AWKA . Keep resting Lad till we meet to part no more |
Re: Lightning Strikes 9 Students Playing Football In Anambra, Kills 3 by MrBiGGEST(m): 3:19am On Nov 06, 2023 |
Damn, This is terrible. |
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