Lightning has struck one person dead and destroyed dried tobacco leaves in Kyabigambire Sub County Hoima district.
The deceased has been identified as Centenary Jackson, 32, a peasant farmer in Kiryabutuzi village, Kibugubya parish in Kyabigambire Sub County.
Geoffrey Barugahara, the sub county chairman who is also a neighbour to the deceased, says Jackson was struck on Saturday evening at around 4 pm during a heavy down pour.
He says the deceased was struck while in his tobacco ban sorting out his dried tobacco, adding that it also burnt out his entire tobacco ban.
Barugahara says this is the first lightning victim in the Sub County ever since lightning began striking about two months ago.
The deceased will be buried today.
This is a second lightning incident in the district in a space of less than two weeks.
Late last month, lightning struck a family of four in Kyangwali Sub County leaving a mother and her three children hospitalized at Buhuuka health centre. The incident occurred at 3am in Buhuka village Buhuka parish.
Lightning has struck the district four times and the worst one was reported at St. Andrea Kaahwa’s secondary school where 15 students were hospitalized after being struck.
