{"id":44887,"date":"2026-05-22T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=44887"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:01:37","slug":"lightning-kill-2-people-and-20-goats-in-aweil-east-county-and-madhol-payam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/lightning-kill-2-people-and-20-goats-in-aweil-east-county-and-madhol-payam\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning kill 2 people and 20 goats in Aweil East County and Madhol Payam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Hou Akot Hou<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two people have been killed following a thunderstorm in Kanajak, Aweil East County, after lightning struck a residential tukul on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A relative of one of the victims, Deng Mawien, said the incident shocked the community, noting that seven people were sheltering in the house when the lightning struck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened is that 7 people were living in the house together when the lightning struck the house and killed the two individuals on the spot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He identified the deceased as 30-year-old Achol Deng Bak and a 12-year-old girl, Achol Dau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lightning brought out 5 people, including my own daughter, and the two individuals passed away immediately,\u201d Mawien added.<\/p>\n<p>In a related incident, on the same evening, more than 20 goats were reportedly killed after another lightning strike hit a livestock enclosure in Pagai Agurpiny in Madhol Payam of the same state. Eyewitnesses said the animals belonged to residents, but no human casualties were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning remains a recurring natural hazard in parts of South Sudan, especially during the rainy season, often causing deaths, injuries, and livestock losses.<\/p>\n<p>Experts explain that lightning is caused by an electrical imbalance within storm clouds, where collisions between ice crystals and water droplets separate positive and negative charges.<\/p>\n<p>When the imbalance becomes too strong, it is discharged as a lightning strike.<\/p>\n<p>Safety experts advise people to immediately seek shelter in enclosed buildings or hard-top vehicles during thunderstorms, avoid open areas, tall trees, water bodies, and metal objects, and wait at least 30 minutes after the last thunder before going out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hou Akot Hou Two people have been killed following a thunderstorm in Kanajak, Aweil East County, after lightning struck a residential tukul on Tuesday evening. A relative of one of the victims, Deng Mawien, said the incident shocked the community, noting that seven people were sheltering in the house<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/lightning-kill-2-people-and-20-goats-in-aweil-east-county-and-madhol-payam\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-northern-bahr-el-ghazal-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thunder-overlay-lightning-storm-electric-600w-2665343821.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44890,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44887\/revisions\/44890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}