Eight
worshippers have been killed and several others injured after lightning struck at
a church in Malawi´s capital Lilongwe on Saturday, a health ministry official
said.
“The worshippers were having an extended
session of Saturday prayers when lightning struck their church at around 4.30pm,”
Charles Mwansambo, chief of health services in the ministry of health, told
AFP.
He
said the eight victims -- included seven adults and one child -- had “arrived already dead” at Kamuzu Central
hospital from the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Mwansambo
said one person was at the intensive care unit, while 40 others were being “observed”
and treated as outpatients.