20 injured in lightning strike at South Carolina beach

Twenty people were injured when lightning struck a South Carolina beach Tuesday evening, officials said

Twenty people were injured when lightning struck a South Carolina beach Tuesday evening, officials said.

Twelve children and six adults were taken to local hospitals, while two people left on their own after the strike at a beach near Lake Murray, Lexington County spokeswoman Vanessa Diaz said.

The patients’ ages were not immediately clear; neither was the extent of their injuries, Diaz said. The injuries are considered non-life-threatening.

The lightning struck on what was an otherwise “super hot and sunny” day, though a storm cloud did pass over the area, Diaz said.

“It didn’t rain or anything like that; it was just a random storm cloud that went by,” she said.