5. The entire soccer team who was killed after being struck by a lighting during a match
During a game between Bena Tshadi and visitors Basanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, all 11 members of a football team were killed by a bolt of lightning which left the other team unhurt. Thirty other people received burns at the match. The two sides were drawing 1-1 in the match in eastern Kasai Province when the lightning struck the visiting team. The athletes from the home team curiously came out of the catastrophe unscathed.
4. The man who survived being struck by bolt 7 times and then commits suicide
The odds of being struck by lightning for an ordinary person over the period of 80 years have been roughly estimated as 1 in 3000. Yet, between 1942 and 1977, U.S. park ranger Roy Sullivan defied all odds after being hit by lightning on seven different occasions, surviving all of them.
Sullivan is recognized by Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being, and gained a nickname “Human Lightning Conductor” or “Human Lightning Rod”. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 71 over an unrequited love.
3. The 13-year-old kid who was struck by lightning at 13:13 on a Friday the 13th
In August 2010, a British teenager proved Friday the 13th can be specially unlucky. At exactly 13:13 on the much-feared date, the teenager was among a crowd of 170,000 people watching an aeronautical display at the Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival, in the east of England, when all of the sudden, he was struck by lightning. “It’s all a bit strange that (…) it happened at 13:13 on Friday 13″ said the paramedic. Luckily, he only suffered minor burns and is expected to make a full recovery.
The teen was… 13 years old.
2. The girl who was struck by lightning during a sunny day
An 11-year-old western Pennsylvania girl is recovering after she was struck by a bolt from the blue. According to Lisa Wehrle, the sun was shining when her daughter, Britney, was struck by lightning, apparently from a storm several miles away.
The lightning hit Britney as she was walking down a hill in North Strabane Township with a friend about 2:30 p.m. that day. The bolt hit her on the left shoulder, leaving a burn-like mark and exited her wrist, where it left another mark. She was treated at a Pittsburgh hospital. Doctors discovered her arm was broken, but otherwise she’s OK.
1. The diver who was killed after his tank was struck by lightning
A 36-year-old diver was killed off a Florida beach after lightning struck his oxygen tank. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was diving with three others off a boat near Deerfield Beach. When he surfaced, lighting struck his tank. He was approximately 30 feet from the boat at the time.’
The three other divers struggled to get the man back into the boat and radioed for help. The man was then rushed to the beach where a rescue crew was waiting. He was given CPR and taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy was planned to determine if he died by electrocution or drowning.
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