LEGAZPI CITY, Aug. 28 (PNA) — A village councilor was electrocuted while fixing the electrical line of a constituent in Bacon, Sorsogon on Wednesday afternoon.
A police report stated that barangay official Ruel Estur, 56, did not reach the Sorsogon Provincial Hospital alive.
The report said the accident happened around 1:00 p.m. in Sitio (sub-village) Dancalan, Barangay Buenavista while Estur was busy restoring the power line of fellow villager Saling Ditan.
As village official and an electrician, Estur gladly obliged to help, the report said.
However, Estur failed to notice that the electricity was suddenly restored and the high-voltage current on the wire he was holding electrocuted him.
Linemen of the Sorsogon Electric Cooperative II who were then working on the power lines in the area immediately responded and brought him to the hospital.
The victim, however, died along the way, the report said. (PNA)