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A high school student died after being struck by lightning
Wednesday during a baseball game at a school in Fusocho, Aichi
Prefecture, police said.
Shoki Ando, 17, a pitcher for the private Seishin High
School, was on the mound when he was struck by a thunderbolt during a
game against an unnamed high school, according to Inuyama Police Station
sources. The police were informed about the lightning strike by phone
at 1:15 p.m.
The second-year student and resident of Oguchicho fell into
cardiopulmonary arrest and was rushed to a nearby hospital, where his
pulse briefly recovered before he died, the sources said.
Ando was struck as the game was going on in front of about
100 spectators, including parents and other high school students. The
game had been briefly suspended due to rain starting at 1 p.m.
Police quoted witnesses as saying they heard distant thunder
first, and then after about 10 seconds the lightning bolt hit the
student with a loud “bang.”
“We need to remind ourselves thunder may feel distant, but
an incident like this could happen,” Mitsuo Kurachi, principal of
Seishin High School, said after the incident. He said the school will
create an instruction manual to address thunderstorm situations.
The Nagoya Local Meteorological Observatory had issued a
thunderstorm warning early Wednesday, but the school was not aware of
it, Kurachi said.
Kyodo
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