BACOLOD CITY – Two laborers were electrocuted while digging a deep well in Sitio Pispis, Barangay Tapi, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Thursday, March 21.

TWO laborers were electrocuted in Barangay Tapi, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Thursday, March 21. (Photo courtesy of Kabankalan City Police Station)
Police identified the victims as Warlito Rola, 47, and his brother-in-law Haneboy Antemo, 38, residents of Barangay Magballo, Kabankalan City.
Police Lt. Col. Roberto Indiape Jr., Kabankalan police chief, said the victims inadvertently touched a live wire from a main line of a power supplier while holding a tubular pipe for drilling.
The victims sustained serious burns and their parts of their bodies were severed, Indiape said.
They were taken to a hospital where they were declared dead.