The player, José Hugo De la Cruz Meza, was involved in a regional tournament game between two low-level local teams, C.D.

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

Teams in a local tournament in the Andean highlands east of Lima were leaving the pitch amid a weather delay when lightning ...

Though lightning has struck football matches in Peru before, causing injuries, the weekend incident was the first known ...

TMZ reports that in the midst of a soccer match on Sunday (Nov. 3) between the Juventud Bellavista and Familia Chocca at Coto ...

A tragic incident in a lower-division match in Peru saw a lightning strike claim the life of a player of the pitch.

A Peruvian football player was killed and several more were injured after being struck by lightning in the middle of a match.

ALBAWABA - A terrifying video of several football players in Peru being hit by several lightning strikes took the internet by ...

Lightning has killed a 34-year-old player and injured four others during a football match in the Peruvian Andes.

A soccer player was struck by lightning during a match over the weekend in Peru, killing him and wounding four other players in a horrific incident caught on a live video stream of the game.

A Peruvian soccer player was killed when he was struck by lightning that had just caused ... in the Andean highlands that is the capital of Peru’s Junín region. The match between the two ...