Biche man electrocuted on shed rooftop

A 55-year-old man died af­ter be­ing elec­tro­cut­ed while work­ing on a rooftop in Plum Mi­tan on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

The de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as An­tho­ny Simp­son Ba­boolal of 7mm LP 66 Plum Mi­tan.

Po­lice said that about 3.00 pm on De­cem­ber 17, Ba­boolal was at­tend­ing to elec­tri­cal wires on the roof of a small wood­en stor­age struc­ture next to his home. The struc­ture, which was ser­viced by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion, stood about eight feet high.

Rel­a­tives re­port­ed hear­ing a scream. Ba­boolal’s son, 21-year-old Aidan Ba­boolal, at­tempt­ed to as­sist by climb­ing an eight-foot met­al lad­der but al­so suf­fered an elec­tri­cal shock. Calls to the de­ceased went unan­swered, and he was lat­er seen ly­ing mo­tion­less on the gal­vanised rooftop.

A re­port was made to the Biche Po­lice Sta­tion by the de­ceased’s wife.

When of­fi­cers ar­rived, Ba­boolal was found ly­ing on his back on the rooftop be­neath ex­posed live elec­tri­cal wires. He was bare­foot­ed and bare­back, wear­ing salmon-coloured trousers and black box­ers. A wrist­watch was on his left hand, and a met­al nip­per was found near his right hand.

Per­son­nel from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion lat­er made the ex­posed wires safe.