Mourners gathered on Monday (Nov 4) to bid farewell to Jose de la Cruz who was killed by lightning during a football match in the Peruvian Andes.
The match had been suspended due to a thunderstorm, but as players were exiting the field, lightning struck de la Cruz, also injuring four other players.
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The match had been suspended due to a thunderstorm, but as players were exiting the field, lightning struck de la Cruz, also injuring four other players.
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00:00Mourners gathered on Monday to bid farewell to Jose de la Cruz, who was killed by lightning
00:07during a football match in the Peruvian Andes.
00:10A survivor of the incident, player Juan Choca Lacta, said he saw white when lightning hit
00:15the pitch.
00:16He said he saw white, white, white, nothing, nothing, white, white, white, nothing, nothing,
00:23nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing,
00:30nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing,
00:37nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing,
00:45nothing, nothing, nothing.
00:51The local tournament game between Juventud Belavista and Familia Choca in Juan Cayo province
00:56on Sunday was halted when lightning first struck, but a second bolt hit players as they
01:02were leaving the field.
01:03Though lightning has struck football matches in Peru before, causing injuries, the weekend
01:08incident was the first known fatality from the phenomenon in the country.
01:14you