Student electrocuted while installing solar panels in Delta

A final-year student of the Petroleum Training Institute in Effurun, Delta State, has been electrocuted while installing solar panels on a one-story structure.

It was gathered that the incident occurred in a business location close to a commercial bank at the Warri Garage Area on Thursday, October 19.

A source whose name is withheld stated that the aluminum ladder used by the student in climbing up to the position he intended to install the panels was magnetized by the high-tension wires linking a neighboring commercial bank. Consequently, he reportedly got electrocuted in the process.

It was further gathered that a gallant passerby, on noticing the development, instantly used a long dry plank to hit the aluminum ladder thus successfully detaching it from the vibrating high-tension wires, to which the young man had stuck unconsciously.

The final-year PTI student who was said to be writing his final project at the time of the incident was immediately rushed to a nearby private clinic for treatment.

He reportedly died shortly on arrival at the private clinic.

The remains of the late student who resided with his parents in the nearby Bowen Avenue area have been reportedly laid to rest in his hometown in one of the Southeast states on Saturday, October 28.

Meanwhile, an unidentified woman in the Mushin area of Lagos State was left in a life-threatening situation after her children were electrocuted on Thursday, September 21.

According to a source her children, a girl aged ten and a boy aged seven, were also electrocuted when they attempted to turn on the television after returning from school.

The source said the parents, who were said to have been away or inside the room when the incident occurred, on learning the fate of their children, were thrown into despair with the mother fainting and currently battling for her life at the hospital.

“I heard that it was after school, that the girl was trying to turn on the TV from the socket when she got electrocuted. Without even knowing what had happened to his older sister, the younger boy went to touch her and got electrocuted too.

“They stayed at that spot until the light was taken and then they fell. I heard the woman is still at the hospital. She has yet to recover from the shock. We heard that when people went to visit her, she couldn’t talk, she couldn’t cry, she just sat at a spot, looking” the source said.

The source further said that the mother of the children had a third child she was breastfeeding when the two older ones passed on.