Kericho: Puzzle As Suspected Thief Is Struck By Electricity While Trying To Vandalise Transformer

• The middle-aged man's body lies in the Kericho County Referral Hospital morgue after the tragic incident he was involved in
• He was found dead under a transformer in the Cheptororiet village after reportedly being struck by electricity
• The man was striving to vandalise a transformer when he met his tragic end, according to the Cheptororiet locals

Kai Eli, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

The locals of the Cheptororiet village in Belgut constituency were treated to a shocking incident involving a man suspected to be a serial thief.

They stumbled on his body after supposedly being struck by electricity.

What killed Kericho's suspected serial thief?

According to the locals, the deceased had tried vandalising the transformer supplying power to the locality and its environs.

His body was found under the transformer.

The locals who identified the man said he had been terrorising the locality, robbing whoever came in contact with him.

"He used to terrorise locals with his other accomplices as they vandalised electricity lines and stole copper wires," a villager told Citizen TV.

Before his tragic end, the deceased had been under the radar of authorities, who were running after him over his alleged notoriety of stealing electricity cables.

Police ferried his body to the Kericho County Referral Hospital mortuary as they embarked on their probe into the events leading to the tragedy.

How Kakamega man met his death under Kenya Power pole

In a similar incident previously reported by TUKO.co.ke, a Kakamega man died tragically while stealing electricity transmission wires.

The body of the native of Nang'anda, Navakholo, was found under a Kenya Power pole, with smoke bellowing from his body.

Dressed in a green hoodie, the young lad was found still clenching a pair of pliers in his right hand.

A suspected electric cables thief, the unidentified man, was believed to have been struck by electricity to death.

According to witnesses at the scene, the man might have been striving to pluck copper wires from a transformer when he died.

Proofreading by Mercy Nyambura Guthua, journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke