A thunder lightening in the evening of Sunday, 21st July 2013, struck and instantly killed Mohamed Fabuleh at his No. 6 Vandi Lane residence in the Kissy Town Section of Kenema City.
Mohamed Fabuleh is one of the Imams at the Vandi Lane Mosque in the Kissy Town Section in Kenema City.
According Jeneba Lahai, a survivor of the thunder strike, she was with the Imam at the veranda of the house when the thunder struck. She explained that the Imam had just returned from leading a 4pm prayer at the mosque nearby and as sitting in a chair with a prayer bead in his hand and was reading the Holy Quran.
Jeneba went on to explain that the weather was dry as it was not raining. She said the last thing she could recall was the loud sound of the thunder, because according to her, she was sent into coma by the velocity of the thunder’s impact.
She said she woke up later at the Government Hospital where she was informed that Imam Fabuleh was killed by s thunder strike that had sent her to coma.
The lightening caused serious damage to the building with riplling impact effects on a nearby house.
At the nearby No. 8 Vandi Lane house, the thunder strike temporarily rendered one Samie Nyallay abnormal and damaged several properties in the house.
Eyewitnesses say the thunder strike would have caused a conflagration of the two houses and other nearby houses were they electrified.
So far, no attributions as to what the cause is has been conjectured. However, tongues are wagging that the incident is a human reaction to some wrong that had been done.
The late man was born in Ngiemahun village in Sorogbema Chiefdom in the Pujehun district. This incident, especially has it claims the life of no less a person but a Imam, is now talk of the town.
By Saffa Moriba
July 25, 2013
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