Lightning bolt keeps on shocking

02 September 2016 - 09:11
By TAIGH CONNELLY

Depression and anxiety plague the survivors of lightning strikes for decades. This is a key finding of researchers who traced and interviewed 10 survivors of a 1994 lightning tragedy in Limpopo, in which four girls from a Johannesburg primary school were killed while sleeping in a tent.Half of the Modimolle survivors said they still had vision problems.

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