‘Stuff of nightmares’: Footballer struck by lightning on field, dies

This is the horrifying infinitesimal a footballer was struck by lightning during a match.

The 34-year-old unfortunate was rushed to infirmary but tragically passed away.

The video captured the chilling infinitesimal the subordinate collapsed arsenic helium was deed by the lightning bolt during the lucifer successful Indonesia.

The antheral was playing successful a affable lucifer betwixt 2 FLO FC Bandung and FBI Subang astatine Siliwangi Stadium successful Bandung, West Java.

In the terrifying clip, different players tin beryllium seen rushing to transportation the unfortunate disconnected the tract aft helium fell to the ground.

According to section media PRFM news, the antheral was inactive breathing arsenic helium was taken to the infirmary for aesculapian treatment.

But the unfortunate was soon declared dead.

His jersey was reportedly torn from the lightning strike.

Witnesses reported that the upwind was cloudy and the rainfall had started to fall.

The clip of the incidental has since gone viral online, with radical flooding to the comments to nonstop their condolences.

One idiosyncratic wrote: “ RIP to the player.”

Another 1 added: “This is the worldly of my nightmares. I lived done the San Francisco ‘Quake of ‘89’ that ended crippled 3 of the Baseball World Series.”

A 3rd idiosyncratic said: “That’s atrocious and condolences.

“In my referee days I ever kept an oculus connected the weather, it’s successful the FIFA manual I believe. For precisely this reason.

“Don’t cognize if that was imaginable present oregon if determination was a ref. This video volition marque it’s mode to FIFA and ref associations everywhere.”

This comes aft a monolithic lightning bolt struck a shot transportation during a cupful crippled sidesplitting 1 subordinate and injuring six much successful Brazil.

The unfortunate has been named arsenic Caio Henrique de Lima Goncalves, 21, by Police successful Santo Antonio da Platina.

Local media reported that helium was rushed to infirmary aft the onslaught connected December 10 but helium died soon after.

Chilling video footage recorded moments aft the onslaught shows the transportation littered with stricken players and officials desperately racing to get them to information and aesculapian treatment.

This communicative archetypal appeared in The Sun and was republished with permission.