The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Saturday said its linemen found a suspected vandal dead under a collapsed vandalised transmission tower in Delta.
The company’s management, in a statement in Abuja, said the incident occurred on the 330-kilovolt (kV) Ughelli-Benin transmission line in Delta State.
The statement said the incident was discovered during an intensive line patrol by the Delta Sub-Region Lines Maintenance Department of TCN.
It said the patrol followed the tripping off of the affected line due to an earth fault on the transmission line.
According to the TCN, the patrol team traced the fault to Tower 101, which collapsed. Patrolmen met the corpse of the suspected vandal crushed between the tower members.
