CNN —A lightning strike killed 14 people during a prayer service in a refugee camp in Uganda on Saturday, authorities in the east African country said.
The strike, in northern Uganda’s Lamwo district, injured 34 others, police said in a Sunday statement.
Lightning strikes are particularly common in Africa’s central belt, and have occasionally caused deadly incidents in Uganda.
In 2020, the BBC reported that a strike in north-west Uganda killed ten children.
And in 2011, another strike killed 18 children and their teacher, Reuters reported.
Persons:
” Kituuma
Organizations:
CNN, BBC, Reuters
Locations:
Uganda, Uganda’s Lamwo, South Sudan, Lamwo District, Sudan