A middle-aged man has died while trying to steal electric cables from a transformer at Lakeview Homes Estate Phase II, Mabushi area of Abuja, in the FCT.
Residents told City & Crime that around 4 am, a tenant observed that the power supply was not restored in his apartment though neighbouring residences had light.
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He, therefore, asked a doorkeeper to check the transformer, who saw a person lying close to the transformer on getting there. The person was later found to be dead.
“So, the tenants were informed about the situation and they informed the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) officials who sent their men to the place.”
He said when the AEDC team came to the site, they discovered that the man was electrocuted while attempting to steal transformer cables.
That is “Because he had already uprooted two wires,” a resident said.
City & Crime learnt that the AEDC officials called the police who later reached out to his family members through the deceased’s phone contacts and took the body to the Mabushi police division.
The police had later released the body to the family.
One of the residents complained about the influx of scavengers in recent weeks who, he said, constituted a nuisance to the residents.
