Father, Son Electrocuted In Abeokuta

ABEOKUTA- Tragedy struck, on Sunday, when a police officer, Sunday Joseph and his 17-year-old adopted son, Moses were electrocuted at a construction site in front of the governor's house at Ose-Igbein, Abeokuta, the state capital. An eye witness told vanguard that the boy who lived in the Police Barrack at Oke-Igbein, was an orphan who lost his father in a robbery attack. The source explained that Moses had gone to the construction site to scavenge for iron rods from the rubble and died on his way back home, when the rods he gathered accidentally touched a high tension cable which shocked him to death. Vanguard further gathered that in a bid to rescue Moses, his guardian Joseph, lost his life too. Joseph was reported to have been called by one of the eye witness in the scene of the incident, he was shocked when he saw the boy's body on the ground and rushed to the life less body which was still in contact with the life wire, efforts to stop him failed.