Following a two-hour downpour in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region, a school pupil yet to be identified has been confirmed dead whilst four other adults have also been rendered unconscious when they were electrocuted by electric cables which fell during the rain
The affected persons include a school pupil and four adults.
Narrating the incident to journalist, an eyewitnesses said, “a kenkey seller during the downpour got electrocuted when she tried to step into the rain to cover her stuff.”
She was said to have “remained stiff and unconscious for over an hour immediately sheet stepped into the electrically charged gushing water.
A police man gathered the strength to pull her down.”
“In the process, the officer also got electrocuted and stiffened before he could get out with the Kenney seller,” this eyewitness added.
Another eyewitness said that two other women and a schoolboy also got electrocuted
All the five victims according to were rushed to the SDA Clinic at the Takoradi Market Circle for treatment.
The point where electrically charged cables got in touch with the gushing water is yet to be known, though some suspect it might have been caused by the many illegal connections around the market.
The condition of the school pupil and one other woman are said to be in critical condition.
Doctors at the SDA clinic at Takoradi Market Circle pronounced the yet to be identified school pupil dead with the rest of the victims transferred to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi.
Meanwhile, scores of police personnel at the Effiakuma police quarters have been rendered homeless following the downpour
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