Kolkata: A lightning strike near the airport sent a Jet Airways baggage loader into shock on Monday morning. Though Sami Das, 25, did not suffer any external injury, doctors who assessed his health said he was in trauma and had been admitted to the ESI Hospital at Kankurgachhi for observation.
A fortnight ago, a similar lightning strike had resulted in the death of a cricketer at south Kolkata’s Vivekananda Park. Doctors determined Debabrata Pal, 21, had a cardiac arrest following the lightning.
Monday’s incident occured around 8.50am when Das was trying to manouvre a luggage trolley on which bags were being offloaded from a Jet Airways flight. Witnesses said they saw a flash followed by an explosive noise as lightning struck the ground somewhere close.
According to another airline ground staff, Das was thrown off the trolley, probably by an electromagnetic pulse from the lightning strike. Stunned, he lay on the ground as others rushed to his rescue.
“We rushed him to a health facility at the airport that is operated by a private firm. The doctors who examined him said he did not suffer a direct strike but seemed to have been indirectly affected by it. He seemed in deep trauma. So we took him to ESI Hospital for observation,” said an employee of JSMC, an agency that offers ground handling services to Jet Airways in Kolkata. Das in an employee of JSMC.
Doctors at ESI Hospital said the trauma was owing to fear. “The patient was terrified on experiencing lightning at such close quarters. He is in shock," a doctor said.
26/06/18 Times of India
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A fortnight ago, a similar lightning strike had resulted in the death of a cricketer at south Kolkata’s Vivekananda Park. Doctors determined Debabrata Pal, 21, had a cardiac arrest following the lightning.
Monday’s incident occured around 8.50am when Das was trying to manouvre a luggage trolley on which bags were being offloaded from a Jet Airways flight. Witnesses said they saw a flash followed by an explosive noise as lightning struck the ground somewhere close.
According to another airline ground staff, Das was thrown off the trolley, probably by an electromagnetic pulse from the lightning strike. Stunned, he lay on the ground as others rushed to his rescue.
“We rushed him to a health facility at the airport that is operated by a private firm. The doctors who examined him said he did not suffer a direct strike but seemed to have been indirectly affected by it. He seemed in deep trauma. So we took him to ESI Hospital for observation,” said an employee of JSMC, an agency that offers ground handling services to Jet Airways in Kolkata. Das in an employee of JSMC.
Doctors at ESI Hospital said the trauma was owing to fear. “The patient was terrified on experiencing lightning at such close quarters. He is in shock," a doctor said.
26/06/18 Times of India
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