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Monday, June 7, 2010

PHCN denies culpability in electrocution of two FESTAC residents

The Power Holding Company of Nigeria has said it could not have been responsible for the electrocution of two residents of Festac town on June one because it was during a power outage.

Its Senior Public Affairs Manager of Festac District, Distric, Chinelo Amah said there was power outage in the forty-one Road area where the two men a pastor and an unamed person were electrocuted.

She said the faulty line that could have caused the accident was traced to a resident’s generator used in powering forty-one Road, D-Close Street lightings during outages.

The two men were electrocuted during a heavy downpour.

Police Public Relations Officer of Lagos State Police Command,Frank Mba had earlier said the deaths were due to electrocution.

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