JUST IN: 6-year-old shocked to death

A 6-year-old boy died yesterday afternoon when he was shocked by an electricity pole at Iimanya village in the Okatope area. According to the police in the Oshikoto region, Abel Nghishiko was playing in a mahangu field with two other children. He is alleged to have been playing with a wheelbarrow and in the process tried to cross an electricity pole of the Northern Regional Electricity Distribution Company (NORED) that was laying in the field and was shocked. He died at the scene.