mo State police have launched an investigation to determine the name of a man who was electrocuted while reportedly stealing cables from a transformer.
The event occurred on Wednesday inside one of the transformers located inside the premises of the Government College, Owerri, according to the command’s spokesman, ASP Henry Okoye, who revealed that the corpse had been taken to a morgue.
“We can confirm that there was an electrocution in the school compound,” he said, adding that “investigations are ongoing to determine the identity of the victim and the circumstances surrounding the incident.”
An anonymous school employee claimed that there was an explosion at the transformer on Wednesday night, prompting the hostel’s administration and some neighbors to come out to assess the extent of the damage, but they were surprised to find a male corpse in the transformer.