Strong storms hit the Czech Republic after a heat wave, and lightning struck a children’s camp near Jindřichov Hradec. He injured five children and a middle-aged man.
After a heat wave, strong storms hit the Czech Republic on Tuesday evening. Lightning struck a children’s camp near the town of Jindřichův Hradec. They had to hospitalize one middle-aged man, who briefly fell unconscious after the attack, as well as five children. TASR informs about it according to the portal Novinky.cz.
- Lightning struck a children’s camp near Jindřichovo Hradec during Tuesday’s storm.
- The injured middle-aged man fainted briefly after being struck by lightning.
- The man was transported by helicopter for emergency admission to the hospital in České Budějovice.
A total of five medical crews and a helicopter intervened at the scene, which transported the elderly man to emergency admission in České Budějovice. Five children were hospitalized in a hospital in Jindřichov Hradec.
Storms in the south of Moravia
In the evening, strong storms hit mainly the south of Moravia, where five-centimeter hailstones were reported in the vicinity of Blansko. Firefighters also had to intervene, removing fallen trees and pumping out water.
