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Two dead, nearly 50 hospitalised after lightning strike during festival in North West | SA News

Two people were killed when lightning struck a group of people on Saturday during the Di Trupa festival in Mathibestad village in North West on Saturday.

The North West department of health confirmed that about 49 people had been admitted to the Mathibestad Community Health Centre (CHC).

It said 150 people had been attended to at the 24-hour health facility after the incident and that 13 critically injured victims had been transferred to Jubilee Hospital in Temba, Gauteng. The majority of the injured victims sustained mild burns.

The department said 34 patients were waiting to be seen by a doctor on Sunday morning and all were stable. The remaining patients were treated and discharged.

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