Nine male pupils were playing football with their peers on the school field when the lightning struck, an eyewitness informed NAN. The students were not wearing shoes.
In advance of a football competition, the pupils and their coach were working out on the football field.
Before it started to rain, the coach called a break in the practice, but several of the kids lingered to play football.
The lads were struck by lightning as it abruptly engulfed the area and was accompanied by thunderclaps.
A instructor overheard the pupils fleeing and yelling. At least nine students were trembling and twitching on the turf when he ran to the field.
He sounded the alarm at that point, and people flocked to assist. The lads were hurried right away to the school clinic and then transported to an Awka hospital.
Three of the nine youngsters did not survive, but six of them were revived and are undergoing therapy at this time. We have gotten in touch with their parents," the witness informed NAN.
Mrs. Hope Egwu, a resident, told NAN that after hearing about the tragedy on Sunday, everyone was enthralled.
Parents and supporters flocked into the ward where the survivors were being treated at the hospital in Awka.
Three of the nine youngsters were taken into the hospital dead, while six others were resuscitated, according to a doctor who spoke to NAN on condition of anonymity.
"At present, one youngster remains in the mortuary, while the parents of the other two have taken their corpses away.
The fact that they were playing barefoot on the field is depressing. The force of the lightning would have likely been lessened if they had been wearing boots, he said.
DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, the police spokesperson for Anambra, stated that no police reports had been made regarding the event when he was approached.
Prof. Chukwudi Okani, a consultant pathologist at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital in Awka, discussed the situation and stated that it was a natural tragedy rather than a spiritual one.
According to Okani, a direct strike, side splash, or ground current strike by lightning might result in electrocuted death.
In order to prevent electrical current from flowing in structures in the event of lightning, he suggested that people install thunder arrestors.