VANDAL CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER COLLAPSED TRANSMISSION TOWER IN DELTA STATE. (PHOTO).
VANDAL CRUSHED TO DEATH UNDER COLLAPSED TRANSMISSION TOWER IN DELTA STATE A suspected vandal has been crushed to death under a collapsed vandalised transmission tower along the 330kV Ughelli-Benin transmission line in Delta State. The incident was discovered during a line patrol carried out by the Delta Sub-Region, Lines Maintenance Department of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), following the tripping of the line on earth fault on the Ughelli - Benin 330kV Transmission line. A statement by the TCN indicates that the patrol team traced the fault to Tower 101, which had collapsed. The body of the suspected vandal was found crushed between the tower members. Tower 101 on the adjacent Ughelli - Sapele 330kV transmission line had also been vandalized.
According to sources,a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowed bus station in Biu,Tashar Gandu motor park today thursday,while a second bomber was shot dead before he could detonate his explosives.Babagana Kyari,a eyewitness,who is also a vigilante said ''Atleast 18 people including three women,died and several others were injured.Two men came as if they were travellers and one of them detonate his explosives in the midst of travellers and petty traders,but the second man was shot and killed by soldiers before he could pull the trigger.The first bomber caused many casualties,but the second bomber was killed and his body is still lying at the scene with the explosives on it''.
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