Seven people have been struck dead by lightning.<\/p>\n
The deceased were watching a football match at Kere primary school grounds in Kween District.<\/p>\n
According to Yasin Siwaone of the eye witnesses, the deceased where struck after yesterday\u2019s heavy down pour.<\/p>\n
While one Samson Araptuni\u00a0a resident of Chemwania has survived with one side of his body paralysed.<\/p>\n
The Sipi region Police Commander, James Ruhweza says several survivors were rushed to Kapchorwa and Mbale hospitals for treatment.<\/p>\n
Kween LCV chairman George Machinjaki says an unspecified number of domestic animals were also killed by lightning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seven people have been struck dead by lightning. The deceased were watching a football match at Kere primary school grounds in Kween District. According to Yasin Siwaone of the eye witnesses, the deceased where struck after yesterday\u2019s heavy down pour. While one Samson Araptuni\u00a0a resident of Chemwania has survived with one side of his body paralysed. The Sipi region Police Commander, James Ruhweza says several survivors were rushed to Kapchorwa and Mbale hospitals for treatment. Kween LCV chairman George Machinjaki says an unspecified number of domestic animals were also killed by lightning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":20011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}