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Alleged cable thief electrocuted while tampering with railway power lines

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An alleged cable thief who tampered with railway power lines got more than he bargained for when he was electrocuted so bad that when paramedics arrived at the scene all they found was a badly burnt body.

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“We dispatched rescue teams from Boksburg, Edenvale and Bedfordview fire stations were dispatched out to the Elandsfontein train station where high voltage electrocution case was reported and one male adult patient still hanging on the power switch structure. “The scene had to be cordoned off and power supply switched off before rescue technicians could be assigned up the 8,5-meter-high switch structure above the rail-lines.

“It is alleged that the patient was tempering with the power lines that are charged at three thousand volts . When scanning through the power lines across all the railway lines, one could identify that none of the five railway lines power supply was intact.

 

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