Ten soldiers were struck by lightning and injured at a US Army base in Georgia.

A lightning bolt struck the Fort Gordon base’s training area around 11.10am on Wednesday, said range control officials according to WJBF.

The extent of the soldiers’ injuries was not immediately known.

Fort Gordon’s Department of Emergency Services and Emergency Medical Services immediately responded to the scene.

The fort conducts base support operations to ‘enable mission readiness and provides an enhanced quality of life for the Service Members, Families and Civilians of Fort Gordon and the Gillem Enclave’, states its website.

Fort Gordon was named after Confederate general John Gordon, who later became a US senator and governor of Georgia. However, it is one of nine army bases that are up for possibly renaming due to links to the Confederacy.

The base’s renaming commission recommended Fort Eisenhower, after former President Dwight D Eisenhower who was also a World War II general.

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