Vandal Electrocuted While Cutting High Tension Power Cable in Anambra

A man has been electrocuted while vandalizing cable from a high tension power line in Anambra State

The tragic incident occurred on Monday night at the campus of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

Sources said the vandal climbed the high tension pole when there was a power outage.

The power supply was said to have been restored while and cutting the cable, and he was electrocuted, and died instantly.

His body was found dangling from the cable on Tuesday morning.

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Spokesman of the state police command, Ikenga Tochukwu said the authorities of the university had contacted the police, and the body had been evacuated.

According to him, people only came out and discovered a corpse of a young man hanging on the pole.
“We came today (yesterday) and found the body suspended on the electric pole at a transformer point in the area of the new Faculty of Education building, close to the Department of Economics.

“EEDC officials, police officers and officials of the Safety Department of the University came to retrieve the body at about 11:00a.m.,” he said.

He added that people around the area could not identify the dead man, but the corpse was taken away.

A man died in a similar circumstance a week ago in an attempt to vandalise a transformer in Amawbia, near Awka.