Pupils refuse to resume classes after lightning strikes and kills 2, injuring 83 others, during assembly

Government has intervened and pleaded with learners at Chinatsa Secondary School in Marondera to resume classes after a bolt of lightning struck and killed two pupils, injuring 83 others, during a school assembly last week.

The traumatised pupils and their teachers are reportedly refusing to return to school fearing a recurrence of the incident. Primary and Secondary Education deputy minister Paul Mavhima who was accompanied by permanent secretary Sylvia Utete-Masango, Mashonaland East provincial education director, Christopher Chihota and a team of government counsellors, yesterday met parents of the affected children and teachers in a bid to convince them to resume lessons, as Chief Svosve pledged to perform rites to exorcise the institution.

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