15-Year-Old Teenager Electrocuted to death While Using Mobile Phone In Ado Ekiti
Tragedy
struck in Okesa area of Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State when a 15
year old boy, Junior Abia died of electric shock while listening to
music on his mobile phone through his earpiece, as the mobile phone was
said to be connected to the wall socket while charging.
The Sun
reports that when Chibuzor could not remove the earpiece from his
brother’s ears, he alerted the neighbours who immediately moved into
action to rescue him. The mobile phone was eventually disconnected from
the power socket, while Junior was quickly taken to the hospital within
the area. Unfortunately, he died just before the rescue team could get
to the hospital premises.
Junior’s
elder brother, Chibuzor ran into the room as soon as he heard him
scream for help. As soon as he got into the room to discover that his
brother was lying on the floor, he looked for a stick so he could remove
the earpiece from Junior’s ears.
Recounting
how the incident happened to the Sun, mother of the teenager, Mama
Chibuzor who could not hold back tears from her eyes said:
“Junior
had assisted me in cooking some rice for sale in my stand at Okesa
market before I left home. But it was hardly two hours after I left that
someone came running to me that Junior had been electrocuted. I
immediately rushed to the scene and met people making frantic efforts to
rescue him.
“We
eventually removed the earpiece from his ears, unplugged the handset
from the power socket and rushed him to the hospital. But he died just
as we were about stepping into the hospital.
“I
was told that Junior plucked the handset, which he also connected to
the earpiece, into the power socket so as to charge the phone. He was
also using the earpiece connected to the phone to listen to some music
on the phone.
“Some
people said he slept off while listening to the music on the phone and
charging the phone at the same time. They said it was while doing that
he suddenly shouted for help, and when people rushed to him, he was
already gasping for air.”
She however, said that her son would not have died if he got help on time:
“If
there had been elderly people around, apart from his elder brother who
wasn’t clever enough to devise a better means of saving Junior, my son
might have survived the electrocution.”
When
asked if it was a usual thing for his late son to listen to music on
his mobile phone while charging it, Mama Chibuzor said:
“I
only know that he was an obedient boy who didn’t get into trouble with
anyone. He was also very dutiful; he never got tired of running errands
in the house at anytime. Only God understands why this happened to him,”
she said.
His
body was committed to mother-earth three days after he was confirmed
dead. The mother also said all his pictures, clothes, and every other
thing that could bring back memories of him have been removed by the
family.
