Final-year student died from electrocution while putting in solar panels

While installing solar panels on a one-story building, a Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State final-year student was electrocuted.

Information surfaced that the graphic incident happened on Thursday, October 19, 2023, at a business site near a commercial bank in the Warri Garage Area.

Journalists were told by witnesses that the high-tension wires connecting a nearby commercial bank magnetised the aluminium ladder the student used to ascend to the spot where he planned to install the solar panels.

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As a result, witnesses claimed he was electrocuted throughout the operation.

It was also reported that a brave bystander, upon witnessing the unsightly event, promptly employed an extended, arid board to strike the aluminium ladder, effectively separating it from the trembling high-tension cables, to which the young man had inadvertently become attached.

The event occurred as the final-year PTI student was allegedly working on his final project. He was taken right away to a neighbouring private facility for treatment.

It is said that he passed away soon after arriving at the private facility.

On Saturday, October 28, 2023, it is stated that the late student, who lived in the neighbouring Bowen Avenue area with his parents, had his remains laid to rest in his country house in one of the South-East states.