Police are still probing the circumstances as it relates to the electrocution of 15-year-old Rashad Haniff on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice.
Police in ‘B’ Division told the Guyana Chronicle that although no one was arrested the investigations remain active up to press time. Police reported that at about 13:30 hours Rasheed Haniff was electrocuted while, assisting to carry out repairs to a combine with an arc welding plant.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Fort Wellington Hospital.
Haniff of Ketting, D’ Edward Village, West Coast Berbice, was at the home of a rice farmer’s residence when he was electrocuted while working to effect repairs to a combine when volts of electricity surged through his body rendering him lifeless as he was tending to an arc welding plant which reportedly malfunctioned.
The teen was said to be barefooted and killed on the spot.
On March 11, 2012 at Lot 44 Victoria, East Coast Demerara, 14-year-old Randolph Thornhill was electrocuted while, retrieving his kite, when a conductor (electrical wire) severed just outside his home.
It was about 06:00 hours when he was in the process of pulling down his kite before going to school when the incident took place after which he fell into a trench outside his yard.
Haniff electrocution
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