Live wire kills carpenter, injures 5 others in Iloilo

Published by rudy Date posted on December 6, 2010

ILOILO CITY — A carpenter was electrocuted, while five of his fellow carpenters sustained severe burns in their bodies after a steel pipe they were installing at the Iglesia ni Kristo Church snapped into a high tension wire in Oton, Iloilo.

Oton Sangguniang Bayan member Japhet Salinas said the steel pipe which the victims used in the construction work accidentally touched the high tension wire of the Iloilo Electric Cooperative 1’s main line.

The fatality was identified as Rogelio Cabarubias of Antique province, who sustained severe burns and wound in all over parts of his body. PNA

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