15-year-old boy electrocuted to death while listening to music on a charging mobile phone

by Kolapo Olapoju

A 15 year old boy, Junior Abia died of electric shock while listening to music on his mobile phone through his earpiece, as the device was being charged

The incident occurred on Friday, 8 August, in Okesa area of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti.

Reports say that the victim’s elder brother, Chibuzor ran into the room, when he heard a scream for help. But when he got into the room, he found his brother lying on the floor.

After he was unable to remove the earpiece from his brother’s ears, he alerted neighbours, who rushed in and disconnected the mobile phone from the power socket.

Junior was promptly taken to an hospital within the area, but he died before they got to the hospital premises.

The mother of the deceased teenager, Mama Chibuzor was devastated as she gave an account of what led to her son’s death.

“Junior had assisted me in cooking some rice for sale in my stand at Okesa market before I left home. But it was hardly two hours after I left that someone came running to me that Junior had been electrocuted. I immediately rushed to the scene and met people making frantic efforts to rescue him.”

“We eventually removed the earpiece from his ears, unplugged the handset from the power socket and rushed him to the hospital. But he died just as we were about stepping into the hospital. I was told that Junior plucked the handset, which he also connected to the earpiece, into the power socket so as to charge the phone. He was also using the earpiece connected to the phone to listen to some music on the phone.”

“Some people said he slept off while listening to the music on the phone and charging the phone at the same time. They said it was while doing that he suddenly shouted for help, and when people rushed to him, he was already gasping for air.”

“If there had been elderly people around, apart from his elder brother who wasn’t clever enough to devise a better means of saving Junior, my son might have survived the electrocution.”

“I only know that he was an obedient boy who didn’t get into trouble with anyone. He was also very dutiful; he never got tired of running errands in the house at any time. Only God understands why this happened to him.”

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