In rural area of the municipality of El Tambo, in the west of the department of Cauca, five people died and another 15 were injured after a lightning strike.
The events took place in the village of Loma Larga, in the Quilcacé corregimiento, where the community had gathered to participate in bingo and at the time of the download they were playing a soccer game.
The assistants were surprised by the discharge that ended the lives of the five people, generating chaos and despair in the place.
units of Volunteer Fire Department of the municipality of El Tambo arrived at the scene of the events to attend to the emergency and began with the transfer of the wounded.
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Similarly, units of Firefighters from the city of Popayán sent ambulances to transfer the most seriously ill people to the capital of Cauca.
Some of the injured were treated at the local hospital, but they ended up collapsing, making it necessary to be transferred to the Susana López de Valencia and San José hospitals in the city of Popayán.
Similarly, it was indicated that three of the bodies were transferred to the headquarters of Legal Medicine in the capital of Cauca and the other two were left in the municipal seat of El Tambo.
This is the second case registered in less than a week in the department of Cauca. Four days ago in the city of Popayán, a 17-year-old boy was surprised by a dry storm.
While near a tree, it was struck by lightning and died along with his dog that he had taken for a walk.
