A local Peruvian soccer match was called off due to weather, but as players left the field, lighting struck, killing one man and wounding five others.

The player was walking off the pitch after the game had been paused due to a storm just before lightning struck. The soccer player was hit by lightning and killed on November 4, 2024. The incident occurred at Coto Coto stadium in the town of Chilca,

A Peruvian soccer player was killed when he was struck by lightning that had just caused a delay in his team’s match. The man, identified by multiple local media accounts as 39-year-old José Hugo de la Cruz Meza,