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Friday May 26, 2006

Lightning horror - one killed, three hurt

By ANDREW SAGAYAM

newsdesk@thestar.com.my

SUBANG JAYA: A boy was killed and his three friends injured after they were struck by lightning while on their way home from school. They had sought shelter from the heavy rain at a zinc-roofed shed in a park in USJ16 here.

Residents who witnessed the incident at 7pm yesterday rushed the four boys to a clinic for treatment.

However, one of the boys, Hazrill Reemey Eng, 14, was pronounced dead on arrival and his body later sent to the Klang Hospital mortuary.

OCPD Asst Comm Muhammad Fuad Taib said police had classified the case as sudden death.

The other three boys, identified only as Charudasan, 13, Aziz, 16, and Nizam, 14, were treated for burns at the clinic and later sent home. Charudasan suffered from head injuries while Aziz and Nizam had injuries to their legs.

The boys were from SM USJ13, according to the school's PTA committee member Mohamad Amran Ahmad. He said the boys had used a short cut via the park to get home after school.

A schoolmate, Mohd Amirul Hasraq, 13, said he had headed off in a different direction but saw his four friends running into a pondok at the park.

“Suddenly, I saw a flash of lighting strike the pondok,” he said.

Amirul said Hazrill, whose ambition was to be a pilot, was active in school and had been a member of the school volleyball team since last year.

Hazrill’s father, Mohd Hushaini Eng, was too distraught to speak to the press.

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