National Telescope national telescope newspaper
A total of five men have died and four others hospitalised on Monday after they were electrocuted when the billboard they were about to install touched a high-tension wire, near the Obiri-Ikwerre flyover along the East-West road.
The victims were admitted at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, it was gathered that they were private businessmen who were contacted to mount a billboard for a Church along the Rumuosi axis, near the Obiri-Ikwerre flyover after the incident.
However, some of the victims are welders who fabricate metals at the MCC along Ikwere Road close to the Federal Government College, Port Harcourt.
Meanwhile, before filing this report, it was not yet certain if the Rivers State Signage and Advertising Agency, RISSA, an agency that regulates the mounting of Billboards, gave its approval.
Similarly, mounting billboards under high-tension wires is prohibited in the state.
At the time of filling this report the Rivers State Police Command and RISSDA had not spoken on the incident.
