ZAMBOANGA CITY – A lightning bolt struck a paddle boat Sunday and killing a 16-year old passenger in the southern Filipino province of Zamboanga del Sur, police said.
Police, citing witnesses, said the victim, Roger Guillena, was immediately thrown overboard after being zapped by the lightning off Abong-Abong village in Tabina town.
His body was fished out by rescuers nearly an hour later and tried to revive him, but they failed to bring him back to life. He was also rushed to the hospital, but doctors declared him dead. Guillena was sent out by his family to purchase a spare part for their motorized boat when hit by the lightning.
In November 2014, a 40-year old woman, Eva Emit, was also killed by a lightning bolt that struck her house in Sergio Osmeña town in Zamboanga del Norte province. The woman’s body was discovered by her son-in-law outside the kitchen that had been also ripped apart by the lightning strike.
In May of the same year, a teenager Ronald Igod was killed by a lightning strike that also injured his three-year old cousin Jelemae Igod in the village of Soguilon in Zamboanga del Norte’s Siayan town. The two were listening to a radio program inside their house when lightning struck them.
In 2013, at least 5 people were reported killed by lightning in separate areas in Zamboanga Peninsula. A 38-year old woman, Elsa Dumolon, was instantly killed from a lighting strike that went through her bedroom’s window in the village of Lumaping in Jose Dalman town also in Zamboanga del Norte. The woman was just sitting on her bed when the lightning hit her.
A two-year old boy, Regie Francisco, was killed and his mother, Angelyn, 22, also severely burned in a lightning strike in the village of Lanzones in Zamboanga City.
A lightning strike in Zamboanga del Sur’s Tungawan town also killed an army sentinel, Pfc. Jaymar Tumarong, while another soldier, Pfc. Jemar Destrajo, was injured. The two soldiers, members of the 6th Special Forces Battalion, were guarding their post when lightning hit them.
There was no immediate statistics as to the number of documented casualties or injuries from lightning strikes in the Philippines, but those struck by lightning and survived suffered from a variety of long-term symptoms, including memory loss, chronic pain, numbness, dizziness, muscle spasms and depression among others. (The Zamboanga Post)
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