The player, José Hugo De la Cruz Meza, was involved in a regional tournament game between two low-level local teams, C.D. Juventud Bellavista and U.D. Familia Chocca, in Huancayo, Peru, when lightning struck the field, the Peruvian newspaper La República and other local news media reported.

A lighting strike during a local league soccer match in central Peru killed one player and injured four others ... Several players were seen falling face first to the ground as lightning struck the field. A brief spark and a small cloud of smoke were ...

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 ...