6 lightning-struck pupils in hospital
2013-02-13 18:15
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Johannesburg - Six schoolchildren are still in hospital
in Johannesburg after being struck by lightning earlier this week, provincial
authorities said.
Gauteng education department spokesperson Charles
Phahlane said on Wednesday that three of them were in critical condition.
A lightning strike at Protea Glen Secondary School in
Soweto on Monday, left four girls injured.
On Tuesday, lightning struck nine boys at King Edward VII
School (KES) in Parktown, Johannesburg.
Phahlane said three of the four Protea Glen girls
remained in hospital on Wednesday afternoon.
One of them was in a critical condition, while the other
two were stable.
Netcare 911 group manager Mande Toubkin said three of the
nine KES boys were still in Milpark Hospital.
She said two of the boys remained on the critical list.
The third was in a stable condition, but was being kept in for observation.
The Protea Glen girls, all aged 16, were struck by
lightning while on their way home from school, Phahlane said.
The boys, aged between 16 and 18, were pulling the covers
over a cricket pitch when a bolt of lightning struck the field.
On Tuesday, the school posted updates on Twitter as news
broke of the accident.
It said the nine boys struck by lightning were all
members of the school's first XI cricket team.
- SAPA
