Elderly man electrocuted as house floods
A 70-year-old man was electrocuted in his flooded house in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district early Saturday.
Police said the man’s one-storey home in Ban Pa Muad Santisuk was hit by shallow flooding. As he tried to pull an extension cord plug from a wall, he suffered a shock and lost consciousness.
Doctors pronounced him dead on arrival at Mae Sai Hospital.
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