BREAKING: Two people rushed to hospital after supermarket is struck TWICE by lightning

TWO people have been rushed to hospital after a supermarket was struck TWICE by lightning.

A Morrisons in Kent had to be evacuated after lightning hit the roof twice within seconds during a thunderstorm.

Emergency services including two fire engines and two ambulance and two paramedic cars were called to the scene in Wincheap, Canterbury, at 3.45pm.

The shop was evacuated amid fears the lightning strikes had started a fire.

South East Coast Ambulance service said two people were taken to hospital as a precaution but their injuries are not thought to be serious.

One person who was in the store at the time said: "We felt what seemed like a big earth tremor and then light fittings came crashing down in certain areas of the store."

A Kent Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: "Kent Fire and Rescue Service has responded to two lightening strikes at a supermarket in Wincheap.

"Both the store and the petrol station have been evacuated and the petrol pumps isolated as a precaution."

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