Carpenter, 3 others electrocuted

DISASTER STRUCK at Anwomaso Bebre on Sunday evening when four people, including a carpenter, were electrocuted in the full glare of the public.

The carpenter had been hired by the caretaker of a two-storey building in the community to fix mosquito nets in the upper windows of the house for a fee.

The carpenter, whose identity was not immediately known to The New Publisher, was said to have successfully fixed some of the nets as he had been engaged to do.

The carpenter, eye witnesses reports indicated, then told the caretaker and a certain man and his son, to help him to push the metal scaffold to the next window.

Unfortunately, the scaffold accidentally touched the main electricity power lines of the Electricity Company of Ghana , and within the twinkle of an eye, all the four people got electrocuted.

Residents of the area were shocked by the unpleasant and shocking spectacle so they reportedly took to their heels as they were scared of being electrocuted as well.

Later on, some of the people mustered courage and called officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), who rushed to the place to disconnect power supply before the bodies could be retrieved.

The four charred bodies have since been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) mortuary in Kumasi for autopsy and preservation.

The police are also investigating the case.