{"id":4750,"date":"2024-11-03T15:55:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T12:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/lightning-strike-kills-14-at-prayer-service-in-uganda-report\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:55:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T12:25:33","slug":"lightning-strike-kills-14-at-prayer-service-in-uganda-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/lightning-strike-kills-14-at-prayer-service-in-uganda-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strike kills 14 at prayer service in Uganda: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mehrnews.com\/d\/2024\/11\/03\/4\/5234116.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The strike, in northern Uganda\u2019s Lamwo district, injured 34 others, police said in a Sunday statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victims, yet to be identified, had gathered for prayers when the rain started around 5:00\u00a0PM, and the lightning thunder struck at 5:30\u00a0PM,\u201d Kituuma Rusoke, a spokesperson for the police force, said on social media, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Palabek refugee camp is on the Uganda side of the country\u2019s border with South Sudan, and houses around 80,000 people, the majority of whom have traveled from the country, according\u00a0to the Lamwo District.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan has continued to face instability since a civil war formally ended in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning strikes are particularly common\u00a0in Africa\u2019s central belt, and have occasionally caused deadly incidents in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the BBC\u00a0reported that a strike in north-west Uganda killed ten children. And in 2011, another strike killed 18 children and their teacher, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>MA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/223963\/Lightning-strike-kills-14-at-prayer-service-in-Uganda-report\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strike, in northern Uganda\u2019s Lamwo district, injured 34 others, police said in a Sunday statement. \u201cThe victims, yet to be identified, had gathered for prayers when the rain started around 5:00\u00a0PM, and the lightning thunder struck at 5:30\u00a0PM,\u201d Kituuma Rusoke, a spokesperson for the police force, said on social media, CNN reported. The Palabek &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}