Lightning hits children’s soccer match in Germany

BERLIN (AP) — More than 30 people were taken to the hospital after lighting struck Saturday at the end of a children’s soccer match in western Germany, police said.
Three adults were seriously injured in the incident in the town of Hoppstaedten, police said — including the 45-year-old referee, who suffered a cardiac arrest after being hit directly by lightning and had to be revived by onlookers and a doctor.
All 29 of the children, ages 9 to 11, who had taken part in the match