THE lightning incident at a school in Taiping last Thursday evening, which claimed the life of the school football team captain (The Star, Feb 4), is preventable if the school authorities had implemented the lightning safety rules which have been periodically published in newspapers for more than a decade.
In the 4.30pm incident, the student and four of his friends were struck by lightning while playing football.
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