A GIRL of ten cheated death after being struck by lightning - inside her home.
Erin Moran was leaning on an attic window watching a storm when the bolt struck with a huge bang.It shot through the glass and into her left arm, leaving through her right big toe before scorching the carpet.
The blast strike left a jagged Harry Potter-style mark on Erin's arm - and 5p-sized entry and exit holes in the double-glazed window.
Survivor ... Erin Moran and the scar on her arm
Wales News Service Erin's mum and dad, Rhian and Mark, both 40, rushed her to hospital where she was treated for shock.
Dad-of-two Mark said: "Erin's a very lucky girl.
"The lightning went right through her. The doctors were astounded. The first to see her just said, 'Wow!'"
The bolt hit three homes in the Morans' street in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.
Neighbour Wayne Cunningham, 49, said: "It was ferocious, like a bomb." Lightning expert Professor Martin Uman, of the University of Florida, said strikes through windows were "very rare".
He added: "What saves people from getting killed is that the voltage is so high that it just flashes over the skin.
"There probably wasn't much current, which made it easier to survive."
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