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.
Yesterday wednesday,a zimbabwe's constitutional court ruled that marriage before the age of 18 is illegal.The uprecedented ruling by the court followed an application by two women,Loveness Mudzuru and Ruvimbo Tsopodzi,who sought to have the legal age of marriage moved to 18 for both men and women.The two young women were just girls when they were married and gave birth for the first time.Ruvimbo Tsopdzi now 20 was 15 when she had to get married.She was forced to leave the marriage and return to her parents home after suffering emotional and physical abuse,she told the court in a signed affidavit.She said ''My life is a hell at the moment and cannot be wished on anyone else.Raising a child when you are a child yourself is excruciation and painful''.Part of the ruling says ''No person,male or female in zimbabwe may enter into any ,marriage,including an unregistered customary law union or any other union,including one arising out of religion or a religious rite,before attaining the age of 18''.More photos below. 
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