Woman electrocuted while picking mangoes


LAHAD DATU: A woman was electrocuted while picking mangoes with a metal sickle at her farm in Kg Terusan here on Wednesday (June 26).

District police chief Asst Comm Nasri Mansor said on Thursday (June 27) that the 58-year-old woman was left with 90% burns after her sickle got entangled in some electrical cables.

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