Three people have been electrocuted at Mowe market in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The casualties are a mother named Ujunwa Okechukwu, her son, and one other person.
About 4 people had been additionally injured within the incident that occurred on Monday, April 22, following an electric spark in the market after power was restored hours after rain fell.
The spark broke out from the step-down transformer suspended on {an electrical} pole next to the store the place the incident happened.
The Director of Information on the Obafemi Owode Local Government, Segun Soneye, confirmed the incident to DailyTrust on Wednesday, April 24.
He defined that the woman “was burnt into ashes.”
Soneye blamed the incident on the development of retailers made from iron underneath the powerline by the merchants. He stated the chairman of the council, Lanre Ogunsola, had visited the affected store house owners and commiserated with them over the incident.
He added that the LG boss had already given shop owners a seven-day ultimatum to evacuate their make-shift retailers constructed under the high-tension powerline to forestall the recurrence of the incident.
The council boss visited the injured victims, who had been receiving treatments at Mowe Well being Put up, and assured them of high quality medical care with all of the bills to be paid by the government.
