Pian Pakdiew, 51, said his brother, Phra Kuang Kittiparo, 57, was found dead in front of his living quarters at Wat Thung Sawang in Moo 7 village in Tambon Sung None on Saturday, the antenna of his radio set still in his hands and his left hand badly burned.

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Pian said the monk liked to listen to dharma and news programmes. 
Sivakorn Kampleng, the village head, said the monk might have bought a substandard radio set from a mobile vendor and the set, which was plugged into a wall socket, shorted.

Faulty radio electrocutes monk

A monk was electrocuted while adjusting the antenna of his radio in a temple in Buri Ram’s Krasang district, his younger brother said Monday.