ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Dec. 16, 2013) – A local man was electrocuted when a metal pole he was using to fix a jeep hit a power line in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines, police said Monday.
Police said the 34-year old Allan Jen Calberto was rushed to hospital due to electrical burns. Calberto was repairing the jeep at Morning Glory Drive in Putik village when the pole hit the power line of the Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative.
It was not immediately known if the electrical wire was exposed. But it was not the first time that such electrocution incident occurred here.
Just this year, a nine-year old boy, Russel Cabugza, was electrocuted after he climbed up a tree and touched an electrical wire in Malagutay village. Cabugza suffered second-degree burn on the body.
Cabugza, a student of Malamute Elementary School, was returning home with friends when he decided to climbed the tree. Police said an electric line of the Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative was tangled in the tree and accidentally hit the boy. (Mindanao Examiner)
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