Video | The moment a Saudi youth escaped from a thunderbolt hit him in the city of Abha

Written By سنان خلف on 2021/04/27

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Arab Weather - Tweeters circulated on “Twitter” a video clip documenting the moment a weather aficionado escaped from a thunderbolt that hit the place where he stands in the city of Abha.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The video showed that this person was standing with an umbrella in the rain in Abha with his mobile phone in his hand, while another person filmed him, only to be surprised by a thunderbolt striking the place.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The recorded video shows that moment when the photographer rose up as a result of the thunderbolt and the parachute and the mobile fell from his hand after the lightning strike hit the place where he is standing, and he survived in the last moments. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZqKP4KJWQI" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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