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This is the moment three American minors were struck by lightning on a beach in Puerto Rico on Monday.
The children - ages 7, 10 and 12 - can be see standing next to each other on the sands of Montones de Isabela beach in the northern coastal city of Isabela.
In the cell phone video, the boys are hit by the electrical discharge and drop to the sand on their backs.
A separate video showed a woman performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on one of the children while another woman and a man did chest compressions on the other two.
The children were rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital in Aguadilla.
The seven-year-old did reported not having a lot of feeling in his feet but was in stable condition, Cruz, told WAPA TV. The 12-year-old is in critical condition.