{"id":446253,"date":"2011-06-23T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/23\/students-struck-by-lightning-were-not-cursed-says-school-authorities\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:32:38","slug":"students-struck-by-lightning-were-not-cursed-says-school-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/23\/students-struck-by-lightning-were-not-cursed-says-school-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Students struck by lightning were not cursed says school authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<tr readability=\"3\">\n<td valign=\"top\">Thursday, 23 June 2011 13:32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr readability=\"22.2619047619\">\n<td valign=\"top\" readability=\"30.671957672\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/985a5458020x20200.jpg.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>Authorities of the St James Minor Seminary at Abesim near Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region have described the death of two final year students killed by lightning as a natural occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Rector for the school, Rev Father Hubert Asante Kumi told Adom News that such incidents can happen to anyone so they will not read any meaning into the deaths of the students.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning struck the two students, Shadrach Adolf and Isaac Osei Kufuor around 10 PM on Tuesday when they were returning from prep.<\/p>\n<p>Rev Fr. Hubert Asante Kumi disclosed that fear had gripped the students after the incident but the authorities had calmed them down.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Rector therefore rubbished speculations that the students were struck by lightning because of a spell cast on them.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a Meteorologist, Rev Steve Nyakotey Quao explained that lightning kills because human hair is charged when it comes into contact with water.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore warned that people should not walk in rains since it is easy to be struck by lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Story: Akuamoah Boateng\/Adom News\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr readability=\"3\">\n<td>Last Updated on Thursday, 23 June 2011 14:37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original post:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Thursday, 23 June 2011 13:32 Authorities of the St James Minor Seminary at Abesim near Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region have described the death of two final year students killed by lightning as a natural occurrence. The Deputy Rector for the school, Rev Father Hubert Asante Kumi told Adom News that such incidents can happen to anyone so they will not read any meaning into the deaths of the students. Lightning struck the two students, Shadrach Adolf and Isaac Osei Kufuor around 10 PM on Tuesday when they were returning from prep. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":446254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-446253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Students struck by lightning were not cursed says school authorities - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/23\/students-struck-by-lightning-were-not-cursed-says-school-authorities\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Students struck by lightning were not cursed says school authorities - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Thursday, 23 June 2011 13:32 Authorities of the St James Minor Seminary at Abesim near Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region have described the death of two final year students killed by lightning as a natural occurrence. 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