{"id":9805,"date":"2025-07-04T11:44:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=9805"},"modified":"2025-07-04T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:49:06","slug":"tragedy-as-lightning-kills-one-pupil-injures-eight-others-at-kyabasara-p-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2025\/07\/04\/tragedy-as-lightning-kills-one-pupil-injures-eight-others-at-kyabasara-p-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy as Lightning Kills One Pupil, Injures Eight Others at Kyabasara P\/S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Edward Byamukama<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A tragic incident occurred on Thursday evening at Kyabasara Primary School in Pachwa Sub- County, Kagadi District, when lightning struck during a heavy downpour, killing one pupil and injuring eight others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deceased has been identified as Mary Atugonza, a Primary Seven pupil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The incident happened while pupils were attending evening lessons, caught unaware by the sudden storm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those injured were quickly rushed to Kyabasara Health Centre III, where they are currently receiving medical attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everest Mujobe, the school\u2019s security guard (askari), recounted the terrifying moment the lightning bolt hit the school compound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Survivors at the health facility also shared their ordeal with our reporter expressing fear and pain but were grateful to be alive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, Bangirana Benon, the LC1 Chairperson of the area confirmed the incident and stated that the police have been informed and are investigating the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Edward Byamukama A tragic incident occurred on Thursday evening at Kyabasara Primary School in Pachwa Sub- County, Kagadi District, when lightning struck during a heavy downpour, killing one pupil and injuring eight others. The deceased has been identified as Mary Atugonza, a Primary Seven pupil. The incident happened while pupils were attending evening lessons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-national","9":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805","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=9805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9812,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions\/9812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}