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Over 30 Football Fans Electrocuted At Calabar Viewing Centre

by Liz Ajala 21 Apr , 2017  

Over 30 people are feared dead at a football viewing centre in Calabar, the Cross River State capital after being electrocuted by a high tension cable that reportedly fell on them.

The football fans are said to have assembled at the centre to watch a UEFA Europa League quarter-final match between Manchester United and Anderlecht on satellite television.

A witness, who said he was the first to run out of the viewing centre, told Channels Television that the victims died as a result of a contact between the live cable and the roof of the viewing centre.


Electricity authorities said it is illegal to erect any building around areas with high tension cables.

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