Three die of electric shock in Benue

There was pandemonium in Benue yesterday as three persons including a three year old boy, his mother and a young man in his early twenties were electrocuted at different locations in the state.

Daily Sun gathered that mother and child whose names were given as Ngwasen Kor and Terwase Kor respectively were said to have been electrocuted in a bush at Lessel, headquarters of Ushongo local government area of the state on Tuesday while the young man in his twenties was electrocuted at the North Bank area of Makurdi as he was trying to cut off electricity supply from a meter at a burning house.
An eyewitness told newsmen that the three year old toddler had gone to defecate in the bush when he suddenly held a live electricity cable that had been pulled down by rainstorm the previous night.
The toddler who was said to have been instantly electrocuted the moment he touched the cable, gave a loud scream which attracted his mother who was standing afar off.
Unknown to her that her son was being electrocuted, the confused mother rushed to where her son was, and held him, a development which led to both of them being electrocuted simultaneously.
Our source said the death toll would have been higher but for the quick intervention of a passerby who stopped some onlookers from attempting to rescue the duo.
“Some other women who did not understand what had happened almost attempted to rescue the victims but for a man who understood what had happened; he throw stones at them in order to chase them away from the scene after which the area electricity company was alerted and the remains of the mother and child were removed and deposited in the mortuary.
The North Bank incidence occurred at about 8AM yesterday at a residential building, number 23, Kainji Street, North-Bank, following a mysterious fire outbreak that engulfed the ten rooms apartment.