{"id":178270,"date":"2017-05-20T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/woman-killed-by-lightning-in-sudan-more-heavy-rain-to-come\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T20:18:00","slug":"woman-killed-by-lightning-in-sudan-more-heavy-rain-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/woman-killed-by-lightning-in-sudan-more-heavy-rain-to-come","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed by lightning in Sudan, more heavy rain to come"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavy rains accompanied by thunder storms on Friday have led to the death of a woman in eastern Sudan’s Singa and the collapse of 46 homes in El Damer in the northern Nile River state.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking to Radio Dabanga, journalist Osman Hashim told Radio Dabanga that a woman died when she was struck by lightning in the Beleil district in Singa, the capital of Sennar, on Friday.<\/p>\n

“The weather was very harsh,” he said, pointing to heavy dust storms followed by torrential rains accompanied by thunder and lightning.<\/p>\n

The downpours that lasted more than eight hours washed away a 15-metre section of the Khartoum-Port Sudan highway as well. “The authorities of Sinkat locality immediately sent a team to repair the road,” Hashim said.<\/p>\n

\"\"In the administrative unit of Sidon in northern Sudan’s Ed Damer locality, heavy storms and rains led to the collapse of 46 houses on Friday.<\/p>\n

Downpours that started at 7 am today flooded the town of Atbara, a listener reported. The rains reached Khartoum by the afternoon as well.<\/p>\n

The source added that substantial rain clouds that reached eastern Sudan from the Indian Ocean on Thursday and Friday are expected to plague the country for at least five days.<\/p>\n