A local Peruvian soccer match was called off due to weather, but as players left the field, lighting struck, killing one man and wounding five others.

A lighting strike during a local league soccer match in central Peru killed one player and injured four others on Sunday.

A Peruvian soccer player was killed when he was struck by lightning that had just caused a delay in his team’s match. The man, identified by multiple local media accounts as 39-year-old José Hugo de la Cruz Meza, was walking off the pitch along with ...