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An unnamed man has been electrocuted while trying to vandalise a transformer at a company located on Awolowo Road in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State.
It was gathered that the incident happened in the early hours of Sunday, September 1.
In a statement on Sunday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, said the deceased had climbed the gate beside the transformer and got electrocuted.
He was said to have died immediately after he got stuck and fell inside the compound.
According to the police image-maker, the incident was reported to the police by a security guard on duty at the company.
“At about 4 am, one security guard on duty at a company situated at Awolowo Road in Ikoyi came to the station and reported that while he was on duty, an unknown person climbed the gate by the side of PHCN transformer. In an attempt to vandalise same, he was electrocuted, fell inside the compound and died on the spot,” the statement partly read.
Hundeyin said a team of anti-crime patrol officers visited the scene and took photographs of the deceased.
“The PHCN office was contacted and the remains of the corpse were taken to the mortuary,” the statement added
