{"id":741,"date":"2022-06-17T13:28:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=741"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:28:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:28:59","slug":"man-electrocuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Man Electrocuted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>04 February 2022<br><br>Vimbayi Mahachi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bulawayo- A man from Upper Rangemore Suburb in Bulawayo has died due to electrocution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports emanating from police reports that the unidentified man was electrocuted while performing his ironing duties at his work place. He later died on his way to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bulawayo Press and Liason Officer Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed that the incident happened on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 24 year old man was at his workplace ironing using an electric steam iron when a sruge threw him to the floor. The power surge sent the main switch tripping when he was thrown to the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 59 year old workmate who was on the scene rescued him by using a wooden plank to seperate him from the electric steam iron which was still clinging onto his hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was quickly rushed to a surgery in the City where he was unfortunately pronounced dead before admission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/HLTr91OAOOZ3jHdEI7418Z\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Insp. Ncube advises the general public to continually check for naked wires that may cause short circuits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zim GBC News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classified Ads<br>For:<br>Bookeping services, Accounting services<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ZIMRA TAX clearance<br>-ZIMRA Audits<br>Payroll services,<br>Human resources,<br>Labour issues<br>Contact GBC Accounting on +263 718 879 398_<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04 February 2022 Vimbayi Mahachi Bulawayo- A man from Upper Rangemore Suburb in Bulawayo has died due to electrocution. Reports emanating from police reports that the unidentified man was electrocuted&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}