This is reported by SVT on Thursday evening. The accident happened at 19:00 when a thunderstorm came in over the area. Lightning struck a football field where a youth team was training. Three people who were struck by lightning were seriously injured. All of these must be teenagers. – A total of eight people have been taken to hospital. Three are seriously injured, says Josefine Bergenholtz-Gröndahl, press officer in the Stockholm region. The other five who were taken to hospital may have been near the lightning strike. The injured were at football training when the lightning struck. Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT Barry Levis, rescue manager at the scene tells SVT that they moved after a report that lightning should have struck a tree. – There were a number of young people standing under this tree, and several of them were struck by lightning, says Levis to SVT. Published 29/08/2024, at 20.56 Updated 29.08.2024, at 21.03
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