Showing posts with label Electrocution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electrocution. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Electrocution Kills Policeman, One Other In Abeokuta





Two people including a policeman have been confirmed electrocuted in Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital.
The remains of the two victims who lost their lives at the constructions site in Isale Igbein area of the state were later taken to the morgue of the State Hospital in Ijaye.
It was gathered that a young boy who was identified as Moses 17, emerged from the Police Barrack in front of the Government House to scavenge for useful materials in the rubbles which was used by the construction company to fill the ditch at the site.
Moses, whose father, a police officer was recently killed by Armed Robbers in Abeokuta has succeeded in gathering some iron rods from the site and was on the way back home when the rods touched and high tension cable and he was electrocuted.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

16 Year-Old Cable Vandal Survives Electrocution In Makurdi - (Photos)





MAKURDI — A 16-year-old boy, Terseer Iorparegh, was yesterday caught stuck in a high tension cable while attempting to vandalize the PHCN cable along Naka road in Makurdi.

Vanguard gathered from the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Gabriel Suswam on Public Utilities, Mr. Gaddafi Asemanya who was at the scene said residents of the area were woken up by shout of help from the young man around 2.am on Thursday only to behold the teenager hanging between the high tension cable after he had suffered shock and first degree burns

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