Two carpenters electrocuted

Two carpenters were electrocuted while repairing a house yesterday in Caloocan City.

Victims Eduardo Lopez, 47, married, of 496 Rubyville Subdivision, Baesa and Danilo Ayende, 38, married, of Gumamela street, Reparo, both of Caloocan City, sustianed third degree burns in most parts of their body.

The two were making repairs on a house damaged by Typhoon Egay at 10:30 a.m. when they met the accident.

Lopez and Ayende were electrocuted when they didn’t notice an exposed live wire that fell on the house located along De Jesus street near Tullahan Road, Caloocan City. Efforts to revive the victims proved futile as the two succumbed to the severe burns. – Jerry Botial