Lightning strike injures 14 teens at soccer game in Switzerland
23 September 2020 |
10:39 am
Over a dozen teenagers in Switzerland have been hospitalized after lightning struck a soccer field during a game. The bolt hit a lamp post before spreading over the field.
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