Strong team treating lightning victims
2013-02-13 19:51
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Johannesburg - A strong intensive care team is treating
two Johannesburg schoolboys who were hit by lightning, Netcare Milpark Hospital
said on Wednesday.
Hospital manager Cobus Venter said a third boy was out of
the intensive care unit and had been transferred to a general ward.
Nine pupils from King Edward VIII School were injured by
a bolt of lightning on Tuesday afternoon.
Provincial education spokesperson Charles Phahlane said
the boys, aged between 16 and 18, were pulling the covers over a cricket pitch
when they were struck.
All the boys were members of the school's first cricket
team.
Education MEC Barbara Creecy was expected to pay them a
visit.
Venter said the boys' parents would not speak to the
media.
- SAPA
