At 11:16 a.m. and 23 seconds, on Tuesday, earth and sky were connected when a lightning strike took out an internet tower. At Rural Net’s Markdale Tower, owner Heiner Philipp reports that ...

Climate change is making lightning strikes around the world more common and deadlier. Every year, around 24,000 people around the world are killed by such strikes; in India, lightning strikes ...

Horrifying live TV coverage of a Peruvian soccer match caught the moment several players were knocked to the ground by lightning — with one killed in a direct strike. The footage showed players ...

🚨🇵🇪LIGHTNING STRIKES SOCCER MATCH IN PERU Jose Hugo de la Cruz Meza, 39, was killed instantly, and 5 players were injured during a regional tournament in Chilca. Goalkeeper Juan Chocca ...

Trichy: Five people, including a 17-year-old boy, died due to lightning strikes and electrocution in Trichy and Pudukkottai on Friday and Saturday. T Divakar, 17, from Peramur near Musiri in ...

A soccer player was killed by a lightning strike during a game on Sunday in Peru, according to Peruvian state news service Andina and Reuters. José Hugo De la Cruz Meza, a defender in his 30s ...

Lightning killed a 34-year-old player and injured four others during a football match in the Peruvian Andes. The local tournament game between Juventud Bellavista and Familia Chocca in Huancayo ...

CNN has reached out for more information. Lightning strikes can cause severe injury to humans and, in rare cases, can be fatal. The chance of being struck is less than one in a million ...

A lightning strike killed 14 people during a prayer service in a refugee camp in Uganda on Saturday, authorities in the east African country said. The strike, in northern Uganda’s Lamwo district ...

So what are they, exactly? Basically, they are natural tubes of glass that are formed by a fusion of silica sand or rock during a lightning strike. Much like Lichtenberg figures appear across wood ...