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Two people are confirmed dead after being struck by lightning on Tuesday in the western district of Ibanda.

The dead, both residents of Rukiiri sub county, have been identified as Edith Nyakato aged 30 and her 10-year-old daughter Sylvia Natamba.

The two died while trying to get there goats from a nearby farm as it threatened to rain.

Ibanda district police commander Denis Ochama told our reporter that the police has advised the locals to always avoid unnecessary movements when it is raining.

Meanwhile a hailstorm ripped through several banana plantations by a ha in the Kikoni ward in Bufunda division of Ibanda Municipality.

The most affected areas are Kikoni one, Kikoni two, Kikoni central and Rwetesa villages.

Alice Kemiharano one of the affected persons, says that the rains started hitting the area on Monday and extended to Tuesday leaving the whole of her banana plantation destroyed.

She says that the plantation has been her main source of food.

The down power also damaged Kikoni Church of Uganda primary school where two classrooms were destroyed.

The acting chairperson for Bufunda Division Benon Keimustya told URN that they were planning to mobilise locals to erect temporary structures where the pupils will be studying from.

This comes barely a month after a downpour in early October destroyed houses and bridges in the sub county of Kicuzi.