Three people have been killed and 15 injured after a bolt of lightning hit a beach packed with holidaymakers. "The lightning hit and then there were people lying all over the beach," one witness said. "We ran with my father to help but it was ugly because all of them (the injured) were screaming and no one really knew what to do. "We did what we could - it was the best that could be done." Witness described panicked tourists running from the scene Read more [...]

(CNN) -- A lightning strike killed three people on a beach in Argentina Thursday and injured 22 others, state media reported. "We were hiding in a tent to take shelter from the storm when we felt an explosion, and then I saw my friend thrown to the ground," Rafael Viñuela told the state-run Telam news agency. He ran to find a doctor after seeing that his friend's arm was burned. "When they arrived, they told us that he had died," he told Telam. The state news agency reported that another victim, Read more [...]

VILLA GESEL, Argentina - Three tourists were killed by lightning and 15 others injured after a storm battered a seaside town in Argentina, officials said Thursday. Most people on the beach in Villa Gesell, in Buenos Aires province, had already left by the time the storm erupted, local officials said. The fatalities and injured had been seeking shelter under awnings when the storm erupted. After the lightning strike, several victims were ferried away from the scene on sun loungers. One woman victim Read more [...]