Five-year-old taken to hospital after being struck by lightning on Gold Coast

The lightning strikes were due to thunderstorms which were rolling across the Gold Coast region, as well as the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday afternoon. Photo / 123RF

A young boy has been taken to hospital and several people in a unit block have been assessed by paramedics after separate lightning strikes on homes on the Gold Coast.

Gavin Fuller from Queensland Ambulance said the 5-year-old suffered burns to his hands and back around 4.45pm (Aust time) on Wednesday at a house at Tallai.

"He was hanging onto a tap at the time the house or near the house was struck by lightning .. he's been taken to Robina hospital in a stable condition," Fuller said.

It came after paramedics were called to a unit block at Snipe Street in Miami, which was also struck by lightning.

"That lightning has travelled through the roof, through the eaves, onto a metal fence and down into the cement, and it has blown quite a large hole in the cement," Fuller said.

Fortunately no one was injured in that situation, although a number of people, including a woman in her 50s, were treated at the scene for shock.

The lightning strikes were due to thunderstorms which were rolling across the Gold Coast region, as well as the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday afternoon.

The storms had largely moved out to sea by 5.45pm, however bureau forecaster Andrew Bufalino said volatile conditions would continue into the evening.

It follows an early morning storm which rolled over the region leaving thousands without power due to almost 40,000 lightning strikes, the second such early- morning display in as many days.