Lightning to blame for 2 deaths in Colorado park

Lightning is to blame for two deaths in as many days, of visitors at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.

Officials got reports of four people struck by lightning yesterday afternoon.

Witnesses say they didn't see the bolt of lightning, just a white flash. One teen says he lost his vision and hearing for ten seconds after the flash.

Park goers say they tried to help a man in a wheelchair who had been struck.

Witness Mary Iverson said, "The t-shirt and stuff was burned from the lightning but we weren't just focused on that. We were just...trying to help him."

Four people were taken to the hospital. The man in the wheelchair died.

On Friday, a woman died and seven others were hurt when lightning struck the same area of the park.

Park officials say these are the first lightning-related deaths there since 2000.