ZAMBOANGA CITY—An 11-year-old boy died of electrocution on Thursday (Jan. 14) while he was trying to catch a chicken in his home’s kitchen.
Capt. Yashier Sarikin, city police spokesperson, said the boy, John Loyd Lazareno, died instantly when he accidentally touched an exposed live wire in his family’s residence at the village of Cacao.
The boy ran after the chickens that entered the kitchen and was trying to capture one when he touched the live wire around 10:30 a.m., Sarikin said.
He said the boy would have been alive had the live wire been covered with electrical tape.
Sarikin said this is the third case of electrocution documented by the city’s police office in the past two weeks.
The first involved a painter who suffered serious burns after touching a live wire while painting a building wall in the downtown area.
The other involved two men delivering water pipes in a subdivision who were electrocuted by a dangling live wire of the local electric utility company. One of the men died.