A 55-year-old man died and another was seriously injured. They were struck by lightning while I was running in a road race and even near the finish when the fatal thing happened.
The endurance race in Falakro of Drama had a tragic end, with one A 55-year-old man has lost his life and one A 56-year-old man was seriously injured by lightning.
The injured and the body of the unfortunate man were taken to Kavala hospital.
The start of the race, organized by the hiking and mountaineering club of Nevrokopi, took place at 7 pm on Saturday from the Towers of the municipality of Prosotsani, at the foot of Falakros.
The nocturnal, mountain race Six Peaks, in which 55 athletes from all over the country participatedwho had to cover a distance of 36.7 kilometers in 12 hours, passes through the six highest peaks of Falakros, ending at the Ski Center shelter.
In the first hours the weather conditions were good, but around 4 midnight the weather changed with heavy rain and lots of lightning.
As the deputy governor of Drama Grigoris Papaemmanouil told APE-MPE, some of the athletes had already finished, some stopped, but the team that was hit, was close to finishingwhen the fateful thing happened.
He immediately started an operation to rescue them, in which 14 firefighters with 5 vehicles participated. The 55-year-old was found unconscious and the 56-year-old injured, who, after a very difficult operation, were transported by helicopter of the Unified Search and Rescue Coordination Center in Chrysoupoli and then to Kavala hospital.
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