KINSHASA Lightning killed all 11 members of a football team during a match in the Democratic Republic of the Congo while leaving the opposing team untouched, a Kinshasa newspaper said on Wednesday. Lightning killed at a stroke 11 young people aged between 20 and 35 years during a football match, said a report in the daily L'Avenir Thirty other people had received burns at the weekend match, said the report which was sourced to the Congo press agency.

It said: The athletes from (the home team) Basanga curiously came out of this catastrophe unscathed. (Reuter)