ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / June 13, 2013) – A local boy was electrocuted after he climbed up a tree and touched an electrical wire in Zamboanga city in southern Philippines, police said Thursday.
Police said the nine-year old Russel Cabugza suffered second-degree burn on the body and was rushed to hospital.
Cabugza, a student of Malamute Elementary School, was returning home with friends when he decided to climbed the tree in the village of Malagutay, police said.
It said an electric line of the Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative was tangled in the tree and accidentally hit the boy.
It was not immediately known whether the boy’s family would file charges against the local electric cooperative, but there were many electrocution incidents in the past involving electric line tangled in trees and house roofs in Zamboanga. (Mindanao Examiner)
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