A 28-year-old electrician was, Tuesday, electrocuted in Apata area of
Jos, the Plateau State capital while trying to fix a problem on an
electricity pole in the area.
The man identified as Chukwuebuka
Eze, according to eyewitnesses, climbed the pole in Agwan Lambu quarters
around noon ostensibly to change the supply phase to his shop when the
Power Holding of Nigeria, PHCN,suddenly restored light, which
electrocuted him.
According to an eyewitness, his shirt caught fire and burnt out even as his body remained glued to the electric line.
A loud spark was said to have been heard as he was electrocuted, drawing the attention of neighbours who watched helplessly.
A
woman identified as a neighbour to the deceased screamed as she came
out and saw him on fire and dangling from the pole describing the
incident as “terrible and horrifying.”
“I just heard people shouting
and I rushed out to see a man on top of an electric pole with hisshirt
on fire; I did not even know that it was my neighbour; this is
terrible”, she later .
Some onlookers rushed to PHCN office to
lodgea report for the electricity supply to the area tobe cut off and it
took the combined effort of PHCN officials and some concerned residents
to bring down the corpse of the deceased .
The corpse was later taken away by the PHCN officials accompanied by three policemen.
The
deceased said to be in his late twenties and who hailed from Anambra
State and only on Sunday launched a gospel album. It was learnt that his
relations and kinsmen have been contacted.
SOURCE- www.metronaija.com/man-electrocuted-in-jos/
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