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Man Electrocuted While Attempting To Steal Telecom Transponder In Delta
Nemesis has caught up with a man who tried to steal a telecommunications company’s transponder in Agbarho, Delta state, BigPen Online has learnt.
It was gathered that the unidentified man got electrocuted in the process of stealing the item, when he suddenly step on a live wire electricity device installed on the equipment which killed him.
A source who preferred anonymity told BigPen Online on Thursday night that the man died while trying to cut a component of the transponder at Erhidi street, Agbarho, Ughelli North local Government Area, Delta State.
The transponder is jointly owned by multiple service providers in the area.
Our source disclosed that the vandal was cutting vital parts of a telecom transponder from where he met his waterloo on Wednesday, December 5, 2018.
The other vandals who were in the yard with him fled the scene when the incident happened leaving the deceased behind.
The source said that the body of the unidentified man which was laid at the scene throughout Thursday morning with three pair of palm sandals which the others left behind at the base of the transponder was only evacuated Thursday night by the police.
A citizen journalist, who simply gave his name as Brown who later posted the picture of the deceased to this medium, confirmed the incident, saying he was electrocuted at the top most part of the mast and fell down with his intestines gushing out.
“Yes, he was electrocuted. He climbed almost the peak of the transponder for the particular component that he intended to steal but unknown to him there was a live current protection device installed which electrocuted him”.
Lifeless body of the deceased at the base of the transponder. Photo credit: BIGPEN NIGERIA
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