Tragedy struck in Okesa area of Ado-Ekiti, the capital of
Ekiti State when a 15 year old boy, Junior Abia died of electric shock while
listening to music on his mobile phone through his earpiece, as the mobile
phone was said to be connected to the wall socket while charging.
he heard him scream for help. As soon as he got into the room to discover that
his brother was lying on the floor, he looked for a stick so he could remove
the earpiece from Junior’s ears.
The Sun reports that when Chibuzor could not remove the earpiece
from his brother’s ears, he alerted the neighbours who immediately moved into
action to rescue him. The mobile phone was eventually disconnected from the
power socket, while Junior was quickly taken to the hospital within the area. Unfortunately,
he died just before the rescue team could get to the hospital premises.
the teenager, Mama Chibuzor who could not hold back tears from her eyes said:
stand at Okesa market before I left home. But it was hardly two hours after I
left that someone came running to me that Junior had been electrocuted. I
immediately rushed to the scene and met people making frantic efforts to rescue
him.
the handset from the power socket and rushed him to the hospital. But he died
just as we were about stepping into the hospital.
connected to the earpiece, into the power socket so as to charge the phone. He
was also using the earpiece connected to the phone to listen to some music on
the phone.
on the phone and charging the phone at the same time. They said it was while
doing that he suddenly shouted for help, and when people rushed to him, he was
already gasping for air.”
help on time:
elder brother who wasn’t clever enough to devise a better means of saving
Junior, my son might have survived the electrocution.”
to music on his mobile phone while charging it, Mama Chibuzor said:
trouble with anyone. He was also very dutiful; he never got tired of running
errands in the house at anytime. Only God understands why this happened to
him,” she said.
was confirmed dead. The mother also said all his pictures, clothes, and every
other thing that could bring back memories of him have been removed by the
family.
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