6-year-old girl dead from electrocution in Negros Occidental

A 6-year-old girl died after she was electrocuted while charging a mobile phone in their house in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental.

According to a report in “Saksi” on Thursday, the victim’s father told the police that he saw her daughter holding on to a phone and charged it to an electrical outlet.

However, she accidentally touched a metal part of the outlet and got electrocuted.

The victim was brought to the hospital but she passed away. — Vince Angelo Ferreras/BAP, GMA Integrated News