By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga
A laborer died after being electrocuted while aboard a sugarcane truck in Barangay Oringao, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, yesterday morning.
Police identified the fatality as 26-year-old Rommy Suetas, a resident of Barangay Tan-awan in the said city.
Official reports released by Kabankalan City police said Suetas was loading sugar cane onto the truck and came in contact with a live wire while climbing the truck.
Suetas was rushed to the city’s district hospital, but was declared dead on arrival by hospital staff./DGB, WDJ