Four members of the same family were on Monday electrocuted around Dinyavo area of Jalingo, the Taraba State capital.
The Taraba State Police Command, confirmed the death of the deceased.
Police Public Relations Officer in Taraba, Abdullahi Usman, while confirming the occurrence in a statement in Jalingo, said the incident happened around 11:00 a.m. on Monday.
“We suspect it resulted from a power surge. At about 11:00 a.m. on Monday, we were reliably informed that a house located at Dinyavoh area of Jalingo was on fire.
“Detectives from GRA Police Division were quickly deployed to the scene and, on arrival, found the four victims with burns suspected to be from electrocution,” Usman said.
He gave the names of the victims as a 44-year-old Remond Ofonbuk, his wife, Mfonbong Remond as well as their children Heaven Remond, 15, and First Remond, 13 years old.
“We have received information indicating that immediately power was restored, the transformer serving the area blew up.
“We learnt that many houses within the neighbourhood experienced high electric voltage which might have led to the fire outbreak that inflicted burns on the victims,” the police imagemaker said.
He further added that detectives quickly evacuated the victims to Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo for treatment where they were confirmed dead on arrival.
Usman said that the corpses had been deposited at the hospital’s mortuary for autopsy while investigation had commenced to ascertain the real cause of the incident.
