Mother of a 4-Month-old Electrocuted in Port Harcourt

Reports say a nursing mother may have been electrocuted in the Agip Estate region of Rivers State’s Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.

Latifa Seiyi, the victim, was claimed to have died when a high tension wire fell on her building’s rooftop.

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According to reports on the Vanguard, a live cable caught fire after an electric spark and burned a portion of the victim who was still nursing a four-month-old infant.

According to a local source who goes by the name Mr Stanley, the live cable touched the woman’s legs while she was rushing to save her four-month-old infant.

He claimed that when the cables came into contact with its victim, they lacerated and burned her legs.

Stanley expressed dissatisfaction with the response teams’ reaction to the development, noting that officials from the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, the facility’s owners, who were called did not reply immediately to calls.

While relating his experience with the incident, a victim’s neighbor, who did not want to be identified, denounced the act of construction under high tension and called for immediate action to stop it.

The source said: “The incident is pathetic. It is something that nobody would want to see happen. The woman just gave birth some four months ago.

“We were at home when the cable fell. I would also be a victim. The woman was rushing to the room to save her daughter child but her legs touched the cable.

“The cable burnt off the legs. She struggled with her daughter, but she never knew that the protector had current. It was that one that killed her.

“I want to use this opportunity to discourage the act of building under the high tension lines. It is indeed bad.”

However, it was discovered that the Rivers State fire department arrived at the location hours after the fire had caused the damage, and the sympathizer was able to calm the situation down.