APALIT, Pampanga鈥擳wo men died, while four others were injured from electrocution when their boat participating in the fluvial parade on Tuesday, June 28, in this town hit a high-tension wire, authorities said.
Colonel Alvin Consolacion, Pampanga police director, identified one of the fatalities as alias 鈥淣yote Ponsenes,鈥� who was about 40 years old. The other fatality has yet to be named and was around 30 years old, Consolacion said.
The injured were Maria Christian Javier-Torres, 58; Mia Franz Simbulan, 11; Dwayne Cortez, 11, and Elizabeth Javier, 41, of Barangay Sucad in Apalit. Rescuers rushed them to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The motor of the boat hit a protruding wire and exploded at past 2 p.m., a police report showed. The passengers got electrocuted.
The wire belonged to the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines.