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60 students hurt as lightning strikes St Brigid’s Nangwe Secondary School

Navakholo MP Emmanuel Wangwe (Left) shows one lightening arrester he has helped install at Shilakwe Primary School on Sunday. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

At least 60 students of St Brigid’s Nangwe Secondary School in Kabuchai Constituency were struck by lightning on Sunday night.

School Principal Fransiscah Munyasia said the students were taken to Khalaba Medical Centre, where 50 of them were treated and later discharged.

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