Written By Clifford Stanley
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy was electrocuted when he reportedly came into contact with live electrical wires while using a washing machine at his home at Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Berbice on Wednesday night last.

Azam Inshan, a student of New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) and son of a popular tyre repair man at Cotton Tree, near the Cotton Tree Primary School, was reportedly attempting to wash a shirt in the washing machine around 10:45 pm when tragedy struck.
His father told this newspaper that the washing machine is situated at the bottom flat of their two-storey home and Azam was alone downstairs at the time.
“We were all upstairs and we didn’t know what was happening until we heard him shouting for help. By the time his brother rushed downstairs to see what was happening he had already lost consciousness,” the distraught father said.
The lad was rushed to the Fort Wellington Cottage Hospital where efforts were made to revive him but he died without regaining consciousness.
The lad was a student in mechanical engineering at NATI at the time of his death.
He is survived by his twin brother Azim and two sisters.
A post-mortem examination is expected to be performed today.