The young sportsman stepped on a power cable while wet after recently leaving the sea
a young tourist Canadian He was electrocuted on a beach in Peru after stepping on a high-voltage cable that it was undergoing maintenance after surfing, sources from the National Police confirmed to EFE on Thursday. According to police information, at the time when the agents from the northern region of Trujillo went to help him, the body was already lifeless.
The Peruvian National Police (PNP) investigates the reasons for the accident that occurred this Wednesday and performs the corresponding necropsy of the deceased person. The Canadian Embassy in the Andean country informed EFE that the consular office is “working on the case” and “in contact with the relatives”, but did not provide more information for privacy reasons.
On the boardwalk of the Huanchaco resort (near the city of Trujillo), the public company Hidrandina carried out, through a contractor company, repairs to the electrical system that, according to residents interviewed by local media, They were not properly marked.. In declarations to the Peruvian network Sol TV, the residents of Trujillo affirmed that security tapes were placed after the death from canadian, as corroborated by a video recorded by themselves and broadcast by the local media. A spokesman for the public company regretted what happened in statements to Sol TV and agreed that the electrical repair workers were not part of the Hidroandina staff, but of the contractor company.