17-year-old boy found dead inside transformer ‘he tried to vandalize’

A young man in Niger is said to have lost his life
after being electrocuted by a transformer in the
Kpakungu area of Minna, the state capital.
Residents discovered the corpse of the unidentified
teenager, believed to be between 17-20 years of
age, due to the stench the natural process of
decomposition was causing.
The victim is said to have been found inside the
Power Holding Company of Nigeria transformer and
was allegedly killed in an attempt to vandalize it.
The Eagle Online reports:
The lifeless body of the boy, suspected to be
between 17 years and 20 years, wearing a T-shirt
that was torn upon a pair of jeans trousers, was
discovered right inside the transformer. The body
had already turned black.
The boy, whose mission, our correspondent
gathered, was to steal copper from the transformer
serving Supreme Water factory and environs, may
have died about two days before his lifeless body
was discovered by passers-by.
The offensive odour oozing from the already
decomposing body, which had been attracting
flies, our correspondent gathered, prompted
people in the neighbourhood to conduct a search of
where and what could have caused the stench.
The search party, it was gathered, was shocked to
behold the lifeless body of a teenager, with a
rubber slippers, which he used to pad his two
arms, apparently to avoid being electrocuted, as he
crawled through the transformer, one of the
residents of the area told our correspondent.
Some of the people interviewed in the area recalled
how the vandals had made life unbearable for
them as it was becoming a routine thing for the
transformer to break down every now and then due
to the antics of the criminals.