A baby has been rushed to hospital in a important however secure situation after he was reportedly struck by lightning at a seashore in NSW.
Emergency providers, together with police, had rushed to Warilla Seaside in Shellharbour, south of Wollongong, after reviews a boy had been injured whereas swimming about 5.20pm.
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It’s understood the boy, reportedly aged 10, went into fast cardiac arrest after the strike and needed to be pulled from the water.
The kid was handled for chest burns by a important care medical staff and paramedics earlier than being taken by way of highway to The Youngsters’s Hospital at Westmead, NSW ambulance mentioned.
A witness instructed 7NEWS they have been taking photographs after they heard the lightning strike.
“I circled, I noticed the child and the mother and father, they have been crying and holding (the kid),” they mentioned.
“They got here to the shore (and there was somebody) saying ‘assist, assist, assist’.”
The incident got here shortly after officers issued a extreme thunderstorm alert for the area, warning of large hail, damaging winds and heavy rainfall.
“A heat and humid surroundings over japanese components of the state is favorable for thunderstorm exercise through the afternoon and night,” the Bureau of Meteorology warned simply earlier than 5pm.
“Extreme thunderstorms are more likely to produce massive, probably large hailstones, damaging winds and heavy rainfall which will result in flash flooding over the subsequent a number of hours in components of the Illawarra district. Areas which can be affected embody Wollongong, Bulli and Port Kembla.”
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