10 Year Old Girl Killed In Electrocution As Heavy Storm Damage Hundreds Of Homes at Kauma
A
10 year old girl at Kauma in the capital city Lilongwe was electrocuted while
trying to escape together with her family from their house ripped off the roof by
strong winds during heavy rains on early Saturday morning.
The
rainstorm also damaged and demolishes more than 200 houses in the area leaving
many homeless.
The
girl Sakira Banda a standard 4 pupil at Kauma primary school was pronounced
dead by Lilongwe Police officer’s who rushed to the scene when some residents reported
the matter to police.
She
was severely shocked when curled by ESCOM live wire hanging on its pole just outside
her home at Kauma. The energized wire was cut when a blown off iron sheet roof of
one of the nearby house landed on the electric wires forcing the wire to cut
and lie on the round.
“The
child together with her parents and other children rushed out from the house when
the roof was being ripped off by the winds.” Said a man who stays few feet away
from the victims house and saw the incident happening, “That time the cable was
sparking and arcing on the ground from that electric pole (pointing
at the pole outside the house lived by the girl) but she girl run towards the
wire as she escaped from the house. Unfortunately, the wire as it moved by the
wind touched her and froze there immediately”
He
said the girl was in her blanket soaked by the rains when the storm blew off
roof of their house.
Around
02:00 hours on Saturday heavy winds damaged and destroyed some houses and a CCAP
church in the area, with many roofing sheets of schools and churches ripped off.
Kauma Primary School roof portions and teachers houses, Adziwa Orphanage Centre
School block roofs have been blown off.
When
I visited the area around 07:00hours victims were seen collecting
roofs sheets lying along the streets, some organizing their soaked furniture’s
and clothes, and others were on top of their houses trying to reconstruct the
roofs.
High
winds knocked down the trees, cutting power in the process leaving electric
wires and poles lying on the ground and some roofing sheets landed on electric
poles and in the trees.
Some
victims said starting around 02:00 hours of Saturday when the storm blew off
their home roofs they remained outside soaking in the rains up around morning
when the rains stopped.
Though
the storm has caused damages particularly on property however, Police said they
have recorded very few serious injuries from the incident.
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