Barely 24
hours to the new year, another tragedy occurred living one person dead and two
injured as a high tension cable fell on a building at Umo Orok Street in
Calabar
bringing to three the number of electrocution in the state in 2017.
The
deceased, known as Man of God, was inside his house when the incident happened.
An eyewitness who live close to the deceased said around 6:30a.m. there was a
spark on the cable, after which power went out.
“Around
7:30a.m. electricity was restored and the spark continued but the voltage was
really high because my stabilizer could not supply light to the fridge. So, I
unplugged my refrigerator and plugged it directly. Before we knew it the small
transformer near my wife’s shop blew and the cable fell.
“I was
confused whether to enter the house and pick my kids or run to my wife’s shop,
but me and another neighbour quickly removed our fuse and our own line went off
but other compound didn’t know that it was from the high tension so their
building was engulfed by current from the high tension.
“Fire
started in some of them destroying property and the houses itself, while Joseph
popularly known as Man of God tried to unplugged things he was electrocuted.”
It would be
recall that in October, a 100-level student of Mechanical Engineering of the
Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH) and a nursing mother were
killed in similar situation at 14 Adak Uko Street in Calabar.
And in April
same year, about a dozen of people were killed when a high-tension cable fell
on a viewing centre while people were in the building, constructed from
corrugated iron zinc, to watch Manchester United FC versus Anderlecht FC in the
UEFA Europa League match.
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