First responders describe people rushing to help the child whose heart stopped instantly when he was struck by lightning in the surf near Shellharbour.
abc.net.au/news/boy-struck-by-lightning-nsw-beach-hospital/101898738A child remains in intensive care after being struck by lightning on a beach in the NSW Illawarra region in what first responders have described as a "freak" accident".Paramedics say his heart stopped instantly when he was struckThe 10-year-old boy was struck while in the surf at Barrack Point on Warilla South Beach, near Shellharbour, just after 5pm on Thursday.
"People were yelling and screaming for help, the lifeguards rushed to the assistance of the young man, he was in full cardiac arrest, unconscious and unresponsive," he said."We went to get the helicopter to take him to Sydney, however the weather was extreme and we had to take the boy to Westmead Children's Hospital by road, under police escort.
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