ATLANTA (AP) -- A teenage girl is dead and another girl is hurt after the girls stood under a tree that was struck by lightning in Austell Tuesday.

Dan Dupree with the Cobb County Fire Department says the girls - ages 15 and 16 - were standing under a tree in front of some apartments.

Authorities took the girls to Grady Memorial Hospital where one was pronounced dead. The other was in critical condition Tuesday.

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Powerful storms dropped heavy rain and caused lightning throughout the metro Atlanta region Tuesday afternoon.

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