Terrifying moment student nearly struck by lightning

This is the moment a gigantic bolt of lightning came within metres of striking a student and his friends who had gone outside to film a storm on SNAPCHAT. Footage shows lightning which sounds like a gunshot hitting a house, missing Alex Sawyer, 23, and his pals by 20 metres. The University of Plymouth student captured the terrifying moment in Mutley, Devon, on his mobile phone and described it like "fire raining down from the sky".