The lightning victims were reportedly struck dead at about 5 pm on Monday evening during a heavy downpour, at their home in Lotome Cell in Panyagol Parish, Wol Town Council.
Siraji Wafula, a Senior Meteorologist from UNMA, says that convectional rainfall is usually characterised by a lot of lightning strikes and thunderstorms, which are dangerous.
Hundreds of lives of pupils and students in Hoima district are at risk because their schools do not have lightning conductors at the beginning of another rainy season in Uganda.
A total of five people have been confirmed dead after being struck by lightning in separate incidents in Kabale. Among the dead are a mother and her two sons and a wife who was trying to harvest rain water.
Five retail shops were destroyed in Kasese after the building in which they were located at Kinyabisiki Trading Centre, Kyondo sub-county was struck by lightning on Saturday afternoon.
Radio equipment worth 91 million shillings has been destroyed after lightning struck Radio Palwak, a community radio located in Rackoko, Pader district.
Ann Galiwango, the KCCA director for education told Uganda Radio Network that the authority plans to spend 200 million shillings for the installation of the conductors in all the government aided schools in the city.
