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Man with artificial leg electrocuted in freak accident
A Thai man with a prosthetic leg was electrocuted while urinating near a highway electric pole in Bangkok on Thursday.
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The 27-year-old victim, Pallop Thachao, was accompanied by his father and a friend who told police they stopped their car at a tollbooth plaza during a rainstorm to allow Mr Pallop to relieve himself. Police Captain Narongchat Sajjathai said: 'There was some water near the poles.' Transport officials said Mr Pallop's prosthetic leg could have acted as a strong conductor of electricity at that particular spot on the highway. Mr Thawil Phuengma, dean of engineering at King Mongkut's University of Technology, said Mr Pallop probably urinated on an uncovered ground line. He said ground lines were usually covered with PVC pipes but this one may have been exposed.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-07-05 |
