A Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) technician was electrocuted at Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara yesterday while he was working on a utility pole.
Dead is Vijai Gaznabbi, 26, of Lot 33 Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, who came into contact with live wire at approximately 1.50 pm.
A taxi driver, who was in the area at the time of the accident, told Stabroek News that he saw the GT&T technician fall off the post after he made contact with the wire. “Before he fall, I see a blue flash on the post,” said the driver, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The driver said after Gaznabbi fell from the post, he was still alive and bleeding.
However, he added that no one touched him until the police arrived and they transported