St Ann man reportedly electrocuted while removing tree branches
Published:Sunday | September 10, 2023 | 10:24 AM
The police are reporting that a 57-year-old man was electrocuted while cutting branches from a tree in Runaway Bay in St Ann on Saturday.
Dead is Neville Murray, a 57-year-old groundsman from Coxheath in Runaway Bay.
Reports are that about 10:30 a.m., Murray was carrying out work to de-limb a section of a breadfruit tree along the Coxheath Main Road.
The branches were reportedly entangled with power lines.
One of the tree limbs reportedly fell on the wires and Murray fell to the ground.
He was rushed to the St Ann's Bay Hospital where he died while undergoing treatment.
- Rasbert Turner
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