Police in Uganda say that a lightning strike killed 14 people

As people prayed in a church in Uganda on Saturday, lightning struck and killed at least 14 and hurt 34 more, police said.
In a post on the X platform on Sunday, cops said the event took place in the Palabek refugee camp in the Lamwo district in northern Uganda.

“The victims… had gathered for prayers when the rain started around 5:00 p.m. (1400 GMT), and the lightning thunder struck at 5:30 p.m.,” the police said.

The police did not say what country the deaths were from, but most of the people in that camp and others in the area are refugees from South Sudan. The country had a bloody civil war right after it got its freedom in 2011, so most of those people had to leave.

Police said that most of the deaths were young people, including a girl who was nine years old.

In the east African country, lightning hits often kill, especially in schools, which don’t have lightning conductors.