Lightning Strike at Swedish Amusement Park Injures Woman Seriously, Several Taken to Hospital

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Lightning Strike at Swedish Amusement Park Injures Woman Seriously, Several Taken to Hospital
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Three adults had to be taken to hospital by ambulance after lightning struck the amusement park several times on Sunday morning, according to Conny Emmelin at the press service in Region Skåne.

Of them, a woman in her 40s is seriously injured, he told TT.

Seven people, including five children and two adults, went to the emergency room themselves after the incident, he says.

They are all assessed to have minor injuries, says Conny Emmelin.

Among other things, the lightning struck right next to a tree in a place in the amusement park where a group of about ten people were, the amusement park's operations manager Tommy Bauer tells TT.

"I was just a short distance from the tree when I saw the lightning strike and some of the people in the group got pieces of the tree on them. They were cut," he says.

Together with other staff from the amusement park, Tommy Bauer helped the group into an office at the park, contacted an ambulance and bandaged the injured.

They were shocked, which is really understandable. In terms of injuries, it was just wounds, nothing serious from what I saw at the time, he says.

About fifteen minutes after the lightning strike, the thunderstorm passed by the amusement park, which did not close due to the accident but remained open, according to Tommy Bauer.

SMHI has warned of thunderstorms over large parts of southern and central Sweden on Sunday.

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