{"id":20284,"date":"2024-06-06T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=20284"},"modified":"2024-06-06T17:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:48:16","slug":"police-investigate-tragic-electrocution-of-elderly-man-in-yakusari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/police-investigate-tragic-electrocution-of-elderly-man-in-yakusari\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Investigate Tragic Electrocution of Elderly Man in Yakusari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tragic incident unfolded in Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, as 63-year-old Shri Maan Somraj, a farmer, was reportedly electrocuted while attempting to remove illegal connections from his home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident has prompted an investigation by the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somraj was discovered motionless in his yard with electrical wires in his hand at approximately 09:15 on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His wife, Dhanmatee Deonarine, recounted the events leading up to the tragic incident, revealing that Somraj had been attempting to remove the illegal connections before the fatal accident occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Deonarine, Somraj had planned to accompany her to buy a water pump after she finished selling fish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, when she returned home, she found him lying motionless in the yard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is believed that Somraj had an illegal power connection from an abandoned house lot to his home and became entangled with the wires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deonarine expressed shock and disbelief at the sudden turn of events, initially assuming that her husband had fallen ill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She described the heartbreaking moment when she discovered him and attempted to hoist him up with the help of neighbors before authorities arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The circumstances surrounding Somraj&#8217;s death are currently under investigation by the police. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the community mourns the loss of a beloved member, questions remain about the safety of illegal electrical connections and the need for greater awareness and enforcement to prevent such tragedies in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tragic incident unfolded in Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, as 63-year-old Shri Maan Somraj, a farmer, was reportedly electrocuted while attempting to remove illegal connections from his home. The incident&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20286,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions\/20286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}