A lighting strike during a local league soccer match in central Peru killed one player and injured four others on Sunday.

A Peruvian soccer player was killed when he was struck by lightning that had just caused a delay in his ... a town located east of Lima in the Andean highlands that is the capital of Peru’s Junín region. The match between the two teams, Juventud ...

According to The New York Post, televised coverage of a soccer match between Juventud Bellavista and Familia Chocca in Chilca, Peru captured the moment lightning struck and killed a player just moments after the match was suspended due to deteriorating weather conditions. An X-user posted video of the incident to X Monday.