A lighting strike at a refugee camp in Uganda had killed 14 people, police say.
The victims were attending a church service on Saturday evening when the lightning struck at the Palabek Refugee Settlement in the country’s northwest. Another 34 people were injured in the incident.
An official told local radio that all those who died were children. The area has recently seen heavy rains with thunder and lightning.
Palabek Refugee Settlement is home to more than 80,000 refugees and asylum seekers, many of whom have fled the ongoing conflict in neighboring South Sudan. Refugee camps can be particularly vulnerable to the dangers of severe weather events.
This is not the first time such a tragedy has occurred in Uganda. Four years ago, lightning killed 10 children in the city of Arua as they were taking a break from a game of football.
