32 injured as lightning strikes stadium in Germany

Thirty-two people were injured, nine seriously, when a bolt of lightning struck a rain-soaked stadium in the west of Germany where amateur footballers were training, police said Saturday.

Three of those electrocuted had to be taken by helicopter to specialist clinics after the incident Friday evening in which lightning zapped a lighting pylon at the sports venue in the town of Wald-Michelbach, south of Frankfurt.