a bolt of lightning-

Last week, two schoolgirls [teens] were coming out of a school at Wolverstone near Ipswich in UK, during a thunderstorm. They were both using umbrellas with metal frames and were both struck by lightening. Only the fact that their shoes had rubber soles saved them from death.

One of them had her mobile phone in her hand, the lightening melted it causing it to stick to her hand and she is severely burned. She bit through her tongue and has had to have extensive surgery in her mouth.