{"id":4599,"date":"2025-04-30T17:01:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2025-04-30T17:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:01:40","slug":"lightning-strike-claims-lives-of-seven-in-ulik-payam-northern-bahr-el-ghazal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4599","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Strike Claims Lives of Seven in Ulik Payam, Northern Bahr el Ghazal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Aweil \u2013 Aweil News Agency<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven people lost their lives on Tuesday evening after a lightning strike hit the Ulik Payam area in Aweil Central County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, during a severe rainstorm that swept through the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local sources, among the victims were Akich Deng Athian, a 30-year-old woman, and her two children, aged 4 and 7. The lightning also claimed the lives of Akual Thek, 33, and her two children\u2014one aged 4 and the other just 18 months old. Additionally, 9-year-old child Ajak Garang Wol was also among the deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tragic incident has caused widespread grief among the local community, prompting calls from residents and concerned authorities to strengthen safety measures during the rainy season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of now, no detailed official statement has been released by the authorities, though support is expected to be provided to the victims&#8217; families in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aweil \u2013 Aweil News Agency Seven people lost their lives on Tuesday evening after a lightning strike hit the Ulik Payam area in Aweil Central County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4601,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions\/4601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}