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The 10-year-old was swimming on Australia Day at Warrilla Beach at Barrack Point, near Shellharbour in NSW, when he was hit by the thunderbolt.
Australia's east coast was battered by severe thunderstorms that caused flash flooding and power outages on Tuesday.
Large parts of New South Wales on Tuesday evening were lashed with an estimated 30,000 lightning strikes hitting areas from the Hunter Valley to Sydney, the South Coast and the Illawarra.