Lightning struck the Brampton Centennial Park in Ontario on Wednesday afternoon, hitting a 26-year old woman and two boys aged 5 and 4. The three were hurt badly by the lightning, but are alive and confined in two hospitals.

The elder boy, 5-year old Kyus Caines and his playmate, a 4-year old who was not identified, are confined at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. The mother of Kyus, Dulce Caines, is at the Brampton Civic Hospital.

Fifty-two cows on a ranch in northern Uruguay died after they were struck by the same bolt of lightning.

A veterinarian who examined the line of dead Hereford and Normandy cows in San Jose State said the animals were electrocuted because they were all pressed against the ranch's wired fence that was hit by lightning on Wednesday.

Five young people have been killed by lightning in five different states in less than a week.

On July 3, Landon Dillard, 16, of Macon, Ga., was struck while riding a bicycle at a summer camp in Colorado.

A 16-year-old girl survived being struck by lightning and won lottery the following day.

BreAnna Helsel was at her family's Blanchard home was watching thunderstorms on June 6. Rain was entering through an open kitchen window and just as she was about to close the window, she got hit by lightning.

A man attempting to break a Guinness World Record of most distance crawled had to stop after a few hours due to bleeding knees and sore knuckles.

Forty-eight year-old shipping and receiving clerk Tim James explained that the feat was intended for him to be able to leave "a nice little legacy for my ancestors to come across."