"All of a sudden we heard this loud boom, and it sounded when a lightning bolt comes close to you, but it sounded louder than that," said Bre Anne Brewer-Paul, a neighbor from up the road.

"Both women had been seated about six metres from a large tree, and this had been struck by a lightning bolt, which literally caused the tree to explode, sending debris all over the place," NSW ...

This is the moment lightning struck the roof of a pensioner's house - causing a massive explosion. The roaring bolt of lightning hit the semi-detached house on Bambury Street in Stoke-on-Trent ...

A bolt of lightning struck the donjon (or 'keep') of Castle Cornet in Guernsey, igniting the gunpowder magazine beneath it. The explosion dramatically changed the appearance of this iconic Castle.