Man electrocuted at Pobiman
A 24-year-old man has been electrocuted by a high tension wire at Pobiman, near Amasaman in the Ga West District.
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The police identified the deceased as Ernest Oheme, an employee of Judefred Signs, an advertising company.
He was mounting a billboard with two colleagues when the scaffold he was using slipped and landed on the high tension wire.
The two colleagues, Kenneth Awunor, 26, and David Awuku, 23, who received various degrees of injury, are receiving treatment at the Amasaman District Hospital and the MD Clinic at Medie, near Amasaman, respectively.
The Amasaman District Police Commander, Superintendent of Police Mr George Kumah, said the incident happened about 1:15 p.m. on September 25, 2014.
He said the police received a distress call that a man had been electrocuted at Pobiman and went to the scene.
“Information gathered revealed that the three workers of Judefred Signs had mounted the scaffold and were pasting an artwork on a billboard on a storey building,” he said.
In the course of their work, Mr Kumah said, the scaffold touched the high tension wire, “and because the scaffold was made of metal, the three men had electricity pass through them, but Oheme, who was very close to the high tension wire, died”.
He said quickly Awunor and Awuku were taken to hospital by some Good Samaritans, while Oheme’s body had since been deposited at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital morgue.
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