A 38-year-old labourer was electrocuted early yesterday morning while attempting to connect his neighbours to a GPL power post so that they could all watch the 20/20 cricket series.
Dead is Courtney Frank of Diamond Squatting Area. A power team subsequently visited the area and ripped up several illegal connections.
Reports reaching this newspaper are that the man left home yesterday morning around 5 am. His body was found some four hours later lying motionless near a canal.
His wife Tonetta told the media soon after the discovery that he said that he wanted to watch the cricket series and she told him not to go and do anything illegal.
Residents yesterday voiced their concern over the lack of electricity in the area with one saying that she had asked other residents to form a delegation to go into the power company. They all expressed disgust that a man had to lose his life.