A local sports championship ended in tragedy when one player died after being struck by lightning, another was injured. It happened at the Coto Coto stadium in Chica when two teams of Palquino residents were holding a tournament between 𝐂.𝐃. 𝐉𝐮𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚 and 𝐔.𝐃. 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐚.
Around 4:00 in the afternoon, lightning and thunder fell on the city, so they decided to stop the game. As the teams left the field, lightning struck a goalkeeper and a player. According to witnesses, the wounded were taken in taxis to the Carrión hospital in Huancayo where the body of defender Hugo de la Cruz Meza arrived.
The goalkeeper Juan Chocca Llacta is in serious health with burns. Other injured are Erick Estiven Ccente Cuyllor (19), the minor Josep Gustavo P. Ch. (16) and Cristian Cesar Pituy Cahuana (24)
