Lightning kills Pietermaritzburg family

Pietermaritzburg - A family of four was killed by a lightning strike in the Mama Lala area of Sweetwaters, Pietermaritzburg, on Tuesday afternoon, paramedics said.

Netcare911 spokesperson Chris Botha said the mother and father had been carrying their children across a field during a storm.

"Paramedics... arrived at the scene and found that a mother, father, a six-month-old girl, and a boy aged three, had sustained severe burns from the lightning strike."

They died on the scene.

- SAPA/News24