An 18-year-old was killed Sunday when lightning struck the Zugspitze in Germany (see video above). The accident happened when the young man was returning from the summit.
According to the police, the young man had driven with two other men from North Rhine-Westphalia to the Zugspitze (2,962 meters), the highest mountain in Germany. From the mountain station he had walked less than 80 meters to the top. On the way back, lightning struck and fatally injured the 18-year-old.
His companions were taken in by the crisis intervention team. The storm on Sunday made the rescue difficult because neither a helicopter could fly nor the Zugspitzbahn could run. Lightning struck several times in the area around the mountain station and the summit. The German Weather Service had previously warned of severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall in parts of the country.
Children seriously injured
Another accident occurred in Lower Saxony on Sunday. Lightning struck there too – in a park in Delmenhorst. Eight members of a family were injured, two of them seriously. A five-year-old boy and a fourteen-year-old girl had to be resuscitated and were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The parents and their five children and another family member had previously sought shelter under a tree from the storm that had begun. All family members were injured by the lightning strike and required medical attention.
Source: Krone
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