Seven-year-old boy in China electrocuted after urinating on transformer

The shed where seven-year-old Fang Haohao urinated in, which he thought was a toilet. It turned out to be a 10,000-volt electrical substation. -- PHOTO: WEIBO.

XI'AN: Mistaking a shed's power transformer for a toilet resulted in a near-fatal electrocution for a boy in China's Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province.

Fang Haohao, 7, wanted to relieve himself while waiting with his parents at a bus stop and was told by his father to do so at an open space behind some hoarding, according to Singapore’s bilingual daily MyPaper.