Emergency services rushed to Lagoon Row in Officer, in Melbourne’s southeast at about 5pm on Sunday night after receiving reports a child had been found unresponsive in water.
Residents of south-east Queensland have been hammered with heavy rainfall and life-threatening flash flooding to start the year, while holidaymakers had to be rescued from a camping site.
Paramedics on Saturday after 4pm rushed a man to the Gold Coast University Hospital after he was struck by lightning at a home in the city’s north.
A child struck by lightning during a violent storm that swept across south-east Queensland is now fighting for life in hospital.
The horror accident occurred on Frankston Dandenong Road in Carrum Downs in Melbourne’s south east at about 3pm on Friday.