The ward’s Councillor Elias Simon said that the incident occurred yesterday at around 4pm, when the mother was carrying her baby on her back. It happened when the woman was working in her rice farm.
He named the deceased as Zainab William (30) and her child, Happiness Bahati.
John Magelane, one of the witnesses of the incident said that deaths caused by lightning strike is seldomly happen in the village but heavy rain which pounded the area was the major cause of the disaster.
In October last year, at least six children at Emaco Vision primary school in Geita Region were killed and 25 injured after lightning struck the school in the morning.
Acting Geita Regional Commissioner Josephat Maganga said the lightning that struck the English Medium School also left 23 other people seriously injured.
“It was about 09:00, six pupils were killed and 25 others injured,” he said.
The lightning tore through the roof of the school building and hit two classrooms, leaving the six pupils dead. At that time, classes were in session, Maganga said.
In 2015 four school children and their teacher died in Kigoma Region when their classroom was struck by lightning.
