Lightning Strike

Kevin Pacheco, from La Masica in Atlántida, died instantly when struck by lightning while in the Santa Ana River during an electrical storm, as heavy rains and lightning activity sweep across Honduras.

Search-and-rescue teams are combing Lake Yojoa after a reported capsizing involving four people, while authorities report heavy rains, landslides, and a death by lightning strike across Honduras during the Morazán holiday week.

A lightning strike killed one person and injured another in La Ceiba's Alvarado neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon as they sheltered under wooden structures during a heavy storm; the injured person was taken to Hospital General Atlántida.

A young person died and others were injured when lightning struck a group sheltering from rain, authorities said.

Two people were struck by lightning during a thunderstorm at a football pitch in the Chulavista neighborhood of La Lima, Cortés.

Neptalí Gonzales Soler died after being struck by lightning while working in a maize field in El Negrito, Yoro; he was the second person killed by lightning in Honduras in a week.

Henry Medrano, 31, a farm worker in El Porvenir, Atlántida, died instantly when struck by lightning while working on Tuesday; other people were reportedly injured in the same incident but authorities have not confirmed their condition.

A lightning strike during a Tuesday electrical storm set a two-story home in San Pedro Sula's Chamelecón sector ablaze, injuring two adults and destroying most of the structure along with two parked vehicles.

Six footballers were struck by lightning during a match in Santa Rosa de Copán on May 30, but all received immediate medical attention and are reported out of danger, though some temporarily lost hearing.