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Haulover Beach in Miami Haulover Beach Long View/Wikicommons

Lightning strikes one of the world's largest nudist beaches

Three people were injured in the incident on Miami’s Haulover Beach.

ONE OF THE world’s largest nudist beaches has been struck by lightning.

Three people are being treated for injuries following the incident at Haulover Beach in Miami.

NBC South Florida is reporting that the incident happened yesterday afternoon at around 4.15pm.

The lightning hit the sea and left two individuals unconscious and a third possibly suffering from a cardiac arrest. All of these were said to be male.

According the the Miami Herald the three men were most likely part of the same group and aged somewhere in their 40s or 50s.

Speaking about the incident, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Lt. Matthew Sparling said:

The lightning had dissipated throughout the water and the electricity traveled through the water and hit the individuals — likely causing cardiac arrest in the individual that was treated at the scene.

The man treated at the scene was airlifted to a nearby trauma centre while the other two were sent to local hospitals.

Another witness told local station WSVN, ”It looked like people were just relaxing in the water.”

And I thought to myself, ‘why are people just hanging out in the water after that happened?’ But they were really kinda paralysed. They couldn’t move, and then there was some guy face down in the water.

The beach had been closed for around 10 minutes in the lead up to the incident due to the bad weather and people were being cleared when the strike happened.

Read: Last night’s lightning storms proved that nobody knows how to spell lightning

Also: 33 people injured after lightning struck German music festival

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    Sep 8th 2012, 8:25 PM

    It’s the end of the world as we know it ! It’s the end of the world as we know it! REM.
    Tornados in NYC
    Sunshine in Dublin
    Refer to above

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    Mute long schlong
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    Sep 9th 2012, 3:43 AM

    Drama queens. I seen bigger in a sink.

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    Sep 8th 2012, 9:44 PM

    Hate to tell u but I don’t think tornados are that uncommon in the state of new York- not as common as in Texas or Carolina etc but sur we have had small tornados in Ireland
    Still cool to get it on camera

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    Sep 8th 2012, 9:57 PM

    It’s quite rare actually. I lived in New York for 5 yrs and never saw or heard of one .

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    Sep 9th 2012, 9:10 AM

    i was in new your this time 2 years ago, and i was flying back to dublin on the 16th sep, and there was a tornado in nyc, had to drive through brooklyn and saw loads of fallen trees and stuff, so my flight was delayed 7 hours

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    Sep 8th 2012, 9:27 PM

    Bloody democrats fault. God wouldnt have done that with the republicans in charge.

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    Sep 8th 2012, 9:00 PM

    I was going to commented that damn 35 min late XD

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    Sep 9th 2012, 10:07 AM

    Bray had something similar not so long ago…

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    Sep 9th 2012, 10:40 AM

    That was one of Katie Taylor’s farts

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    Sep 9th 2012, 11:01 AM

    No need to Bray about it..

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