A widow and her son simply identified as Mary and Prince have been electrocuted by a 11KVA high tension cable belonging to Benin Electricity Distribution Company(BEDC) in Eruemukohwarien community, Ughelli North local government Area of Delta State.
It was learned, the woman was attempting to rescue her son that was trapped by the cable at about 10:pm on Thursday.
Though the report is sketchy, it was also learned that Prince, a JSS3 student would have finished his JSSCE on Friday.
It would be recalled that in April, 2022, three persons, a Fire Service staff attached Ughelli Pumping Station, Mr Daniel Omovwerha 20, and other were electrocuted by 11kva cable and many others were injured.
According sources, “The woman and her two sons, Prince and Oghenekobiruo were in the store when the incident occurred and the last boy, Oghenekobiruo had to run out but the mother and his elder brother could not make it.
The fire engulfed two of them and they were roast to death. Nobody could near the scene of the incident.
The secretary of the community, Chief Kingsley Enomate who spoke to newsmen over the ugly incident blamed the BEDC for total negligence on their part.
He said, “What happened is very sympathetic and unfortunate because lives have been lost again in a similar way.
“About a year ago, we lost three persons in a similar way in this community which is not good for us or anyone that annually we will losing souls in because poor equipments and materials of BEDC.
“After the death of three persons last year, we made all frantic effort to bring the management of BEDC to come and access the situation on ground.
“They came and on the spot assessment was carried out and they promised to change the lines but up till now nothing has been done, the cables, separators, everything about the equipments are very old.
“With what I was told, a mother and a child died in this fire incident and it is very sad and pathetic occurrence.
“The government should come in and prevail on the management of BEDC to change all the cables that have lasted for over a five decades.”
Efforts to speak with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, Helen Ogagarue was not successful as calls to her lines were not connected.
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