A suspected cable vandal was on Sunday electrocuted at Ezinifite, Aguata local government area of Anambra state. He gone to one of the transformers’ installation belonging to Enugu Electricity Distributions Company (EEDC) at Ezinifite to steal armoured cable. He was reportedly electrocuted while trying to remove the cable.

“At about 7:00am, there was a report at Aguata Police Station through the vigilante commander, Ezinifite that unidentified person suspected to be cable vandal was electrocuted while trying to vandalize one of EEDC transformers installation at Ezinifite,” he said.

He stated that a police patrol team led by the DPO of Aguata division, SP Ayeni Oluwadare, had visited the scene of incident and rushed the victim to the General Hospital, Aguata where he was confirmed dead on arrival by the medical doctor and the corpse has been removed and deposited at the hospital mortuary for autopsy.