24.05.2024 14:09
During a football team training session in Courrieres, near the city of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France, lightning struck a football field. As a result of the lightning strike, one person lost their life, one person was seriously injured, and two others were wounded.
An unusual incident occurred in France. Lightning struck a football field where players were training.
According to Le Figaro newspaper, lightning struck a football field near the city of Lens, in Courrieres, which is located in the Pas-de-Calais region. According to a statement from the prefecture, the incident occurred while a football team of about 30 people was training at the Gabriel Peri field.
There is one fatality and two injured as a result of the lightning strike. The meteorological service, Meteo France, had raised the alert level to orange due to storms in the Pas-de-Calais region, where sporadic flooding has occurred since November.