Five youths were tragically electrocuted in Rivers State while attempting to install a billboard using a metal frame.
Additionally, four individuals are currently fighting for their lives at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, where they were promptly taken for medical care.
The incident was said to have occurred in the Obiri-Ikwerre area of Rumuosi Community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state.
It was learnt that a team of nine men was mounting the billboard structure with a metal frame that conducted electric current from a high-tension cable.
Reportedly, the individuals affected were private entrepreneurs hired to install a billboard for a church.
