Electrician electrocuted while picking mangoes
Published:Monday | April 28, 2025 | 10:28 AM
An investigation has been launched into the suspected electrocution of an electrician in Admiral Town in Kingston on Saturday.
Dead is 55-year-old Linton Cowan of Rousseau Road, Kingston 5.
Reports are that about 10:10 a.m. Saturday, Cowan was picking mangoes with an iron pipe which got entangled with a high tension wire.
The injured man was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
-Rasbert Turner
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