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The manager of an electrical enterprise dealing in armoured electrical cables reported at Ilemba Hausa division that at about 8:30 am, a forklift was trans-loading their company’s armoured cables from a container into its body, along Ojo Igbede Road by St Andrew’s Catholic Church.
A yet-to-be-identified man has been killed after an electric cable drum fell on him on Ojo-Igbede Road in the Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State.
Our correspondent learnt that the incident occurred when a fork-lift operator was moving armoured cables from a container.
A police source told our correspondent that the deceased was busy with his phone when the cable fell on him, adding that the man died on the way to a hospital.
“The manager of an electrical enterprise dealing in armoured electrical cables reported at Ilemba Hausa division that at about 8:30 am, a forklift was trans-loading their company’s armoured cables from a container into its body, along Ojo Igbede Road by St Andrew’s Catholic Church.
“Incidentally, one of the cable drums disconnected and fell on a passerby, who was said to be pressing his phone while walking and he gave up the ghost on the way to hospital,” the source said.
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident to our correspondent.
