Thunder strikes a man as he was about to give a speech at his daughters wedding.

Father of a bride JP Nadeau have been reportedly struck by lightning mid-sentence at her daughters wedding in his apple orchard in New Brunswick, Canada.

He was midway into his speech at the wedding when he was struck.

He told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation."And just as I told my new son-in-law 'You're a lucky guy' - Boom!"

"I had the microphone and the shock jumped into the sound system and my hand just lit up and I saw the spark," he told the CBC.

"And I'm looking at my hand and it's all flared up… It was like I was holding a lightning bolt in my hand, it was amazing."

Aside from a small scar on his thumb, Mr Nadeau says he was unscathed and the wedding proceeded.

Storm clouds had gathered behind him at the ceremony on 8 July, he said, and his daughter saw lightning strike the ground nearby.

Everyone was stunned at first, but that didn't stop the happy couple from continuing with the festivities.

Mr Nadeau says he's a lucky-unlucky man - in 2015, a cruise ship he was working on near the Falkland Islands caught fire, and he was rescued by the British Royal Air Force.

"I've had lots of brushes with death," said Mr Nadeau. "But death keeps ignoring me."


Source: BBC