Lightning kills 14 in a village in one month:
A BOLT of lightning hit three homesteads in a village in the Transkei and killed four people from one family, including two elderly women and two children, on Tuesday evening.A third elderly woman from the same family miraculously escaped from a burning house, but sustained serious burn wounds in the process.
The incident, which happened at about 5pm, shocked the residents of Ndwana village in Ntabankulu. The deceased are Nomakethe Myolwa, 60, Maphembetshiya Nfeketho, 70, Ntuthuko Myolwa, 8, and her brother Athini Myolwa, 7.
The survivor, Madumeni Myolwa, 70, managed to crawl out of the burning house. She was admitted to hospital in Mount Ayliff to be treated for burn wounds.
According to OR Tambo District Municipality disaster management, Tuesday’s incident has brought the number of deaths caused by lightning to 14 in Ntabankulu since late October.
