Two people have died as a result of separate lightning strikes in the Brecon Beacons.
A further two people remain in hospital following the lightning storm at around mid-day on the Pen Y Fan mountain range in Powys, mid-Wales, the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil said.
A statement on the hospital’s Facebook page said: “As a result of two separate lightning strikes today in the Brecon Beacons, we can confirm that two people have died, another has been transferred to Morriston Hospital because of burns and one other person continues to receive treatment at Prince Charles Hospital.”
Two dead and two hospitalised in lightning strikes
