Written by Adelowo Oladipo, Minna Sunday, 30 October 2011
TRAGEDY struck in Minna, Niger State capital, last Saturday as an unidentified young man, suspected to be in his 20s, was electrocuted while attempting to vandalise an underground electric cable connected to a transformer, some 200 meters away from the private residence of the state governor, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu.
The incident was said to have occurred at about 3:30 a.m. at Tunga community in Chanchaga local government area of the state capital, as the suspected electric cable vandal and his fleeing gang members were forcefully trying to remove the cable for sale after the Power Holding Company of Nigeria Plc (PHCN) had restored electricity to the community
Sunday Tribune further gathered that luck ran against the bare-footed deceased who wore a pair of sky blue Jeans trousers and a pink T-shirt, after a white flame, suspected to have been an electric spark from the transformer, wrapped round his neck with his face badly damaged while he was still holding on to the thick, black cable with his bare hands and with a view to removing it from the transformer.
The news of the incident quickly spread to residents of the state capital as everyone ran to the scene to catch a glimpse of the deceased.
The deceased prior to his tragic death, had used a white belt to tie his sky blue jeans together, just as the iron saw blade and a plier he was allegedly using to remove the black cable in company of his fleeing gang members were abandoned a few meters away from his corpse.
via Tribune
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