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Nomgwaqo Matjila was walking home from school when she and her friend were struck by lightning

Shocked residents of Theunissen in the Free State. who were the first on the scene after a grade 9 learner was struck by lightning on Monday, say they’ve never seen anything of that nature.

on a soccer field.The Department of Education in the province has confirmed that four learners who were in the vicinity, including the deceased, were struck by lightning.“It’s a very traumatic experience. As young parents you can only imagine something like that happening to an older lady to lose your child almost at the end of the year and that child was about to write exams, it’s very painful.”

“When we found her, she had no pulse and she was naked. We had to cover her body. Because the force of the lightning had torn away her clothing. We waited for the ambulance to arrive.” Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.

 

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