Further severe thunderstorms are expected across Europe after deadly lightning strikes hit several parts of the continent Saturday, Euronews reports.
In Germany, 30 people were hospitalized on Saturday after they were struck during a junior football match.
Three adults were seriously hurt, including the referee who was directly hit by a lightning bolt. He had to be resuscitated before being airlifted to hospital.
“There were many spectators. What was problematic, was that we live in a rural area where everybody knows everyone. It’s more of a shock, because you know the person lying there who is seriously injured. We are extremely glad that this whole thing had a happy ending, and there are no dead to mourn,” said Guenter Denzer a volunteer firefighter.
In South-west Poland, one man was killed after he was struck by lightning while hiking in Mountains.
Additionally, in Paris, 11 people, most of them children, were injured during a birthday party in a park in the north-west of the city.