{"id":28449,"date":"2020-08-28T17:08:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=28449"},"modified":"2020-08-28T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:08:41","slug":"lightning-kills-10-children-playing-football-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=28449","title":{"rendered":"Lightning kills 10 children playing football in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten children have been killed in a lightning strike while sheltering from a storm during a football game in northern Uganda, police said on Friday.<br \/><br \/>The boys, aged 11 to 16, had been sheltering from a storm in a makeshift structure in Arua city, northwest of the capital Kampala on Thursday, police spokeswoman Josephine Angucia told dpa.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThese are young boys who had been playing football when rain began to fall and lightning struck them,\u201d Angucia said.<br \/><br \/>The children, were sheltering from the rain in a grass-thatched house when the lightning struck Thursday evening.<br \/><br \/>Police\u00a0 said\u201c they had been playing soccer in a nearby field.\u201d Four other children were injured.<br \/><br \/>\u201cRelatives have been picking up the bodies from the mortuary since yesterday and the burials are taking place from today,\u201d she added.<br \/><br \/>Angucia said \u00a0\u201cDeadly lightning is commonly reported in the East African country during the wet seasons,\u00a0urging children to avoid playing in the rain.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The football pitches are usually within or near schools.<br \/><br \/>It\u2019s advisable for schools to fix lightning arrestors so that we offer protection to our children,\u201d she said.<br \/><br \/>Uganda National Meteorological Authority recently warned of enhanced rainfall.<br \/><br \/>Coupled with floods, thunderstorms and lightning over several parts of the country that could lead to a loss of lives and property.(dpa\/NAN)<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten children have been killed in a lightning strike while sheltering from a storm during a football game in northern Uganda, police said on Friday. The boys, aged 11 to 16, had been sheltering from a storm in a makeshift structure in Arua city, northwest of the capital Kampala on Thursday, police spokeswoman Josephine Angucia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}