{"id":10976,"date":"2026-03-27T04:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=10976"},"modified":"2026-03-27T04:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:29:32","slug":"lightning-bolt-kills-7-year-old-girl-in-buliisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2026\/03\/27\/lightning-bolt-kills-7-year-old-girl-in-buliisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Bolt Kills 7 Year Old Girl in Buliisa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Flavia Ajok<\/p>\n<p>Shock and grief have engulfed residents of Bugana-Kichooke Village in Buliisa Sub-county after a 7-year-old girl was killed by lightning.<\/p>\n<p>The tragic incident occurred yesterday Tuesday at around 11 a.m. during a rain drizzle when lightning struck a grass-thatched house where nine people had taken shelter.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness, Godwin Kyosaba also a relative to deceased, says all the victims were rushed to Bugana Health Centre III, where the young girl was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Eight others, including two adults and six children, are currently receiving treatment for burns and related injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased is a granddaughter to Alice Tindyebwa, a resident of the same village.<\/p>\n<p>The LC1 Chairperson of Bugana-Kichooke Village, David Katusiime, has confirmed the incident and says the injured are responding to treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Flavia Ajok Shock and grief have engulfed residents of Bugana-Kichooke Village in Buliisa Sub-county after a 7-year-old girl was killed by lightning. The tragic incident occurred yesterday Tuesday at around 11 a.m. during a rain drizzle when lightning struck a grass-thatched house where nine people had taken shelter. An eyewitness, Godwin Kyosaba also a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bunyoro"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10978,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions\/10978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}