A 70 year old man was electrocuted over the weekend while attempting to vandalise a transformer.
Police sources indicate that the old man wanted to steal cables from the transformer near Mary Immaculate Hospital when he met his death after touching a live wire. Locals said that they spotted him with a pliers and a hammer on Saturday but they did not imagine that he wanted to steal electrical cables.
He had climbed the security fence surrounding the transformer and was busy cutting the cables when he touched a live wire and died on the spot.
The area police boss said that in the last one year, Kenya Power and Lighting Company has lost over Sh 20 million in the country due to vandalism of transformers.
Kenya Power workers had to switch off electricity in the whole of Mweiga town so as to retrieve the body of the man and later on took it to Mary Immaculate Hospital mortuary.
Locals were warned against such dangerous activities.
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