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“I wanted to lean on the fence. I grabbed the fence and the basket at the same time when a strong current hit me. I was very afraid, more than pain,” the 10-year-old boy, who was admitted to the hospital after receiving a shock, told NOVA electric shock in a playground in the village of Veliko Tarnovo The boy touched a lamp post and received an electric shock The boy has burns on his arms, chest and legs.
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The incident occurred on Friday night, around 9:00 p.m., in the center of Mindya town, in front of a homemade basketball hoop. The boy grabs the base of the ladder, which is actually a railing, and receives an electric shock. For more than 20 years, the lamppost in Mindya village has been running smoothly. Until the end of last week.
“Around 9 o’clock at night, we received a call that Hristomir had received an electric shock. My friend and I immediately arrived at the scene. He had blisters on the palms of his hands and burns on his chest.” Said Nikolay Gagov – the father of the injured child.
“A mother was next to the child and was holding his hand. I stood by her side, and a friend took out a phase meter and saw that there really was electricity in the railing, which is the base of the basketball hoop,” he added.
The lamp is placed on a makeshift railing post. The basketball hoop is also attached to it.
“I am sorry for what happened. I apologize to the child’s parents and relatives,” said Mindya Village Mayor Ivan Ivanov.
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“I have been mayor and deputy mayor, according to the law, since 2003. Since then I have found the basket. We only replaced items and painted it years ago. There are no documents for its installation ”, he pointed out. And he added: “I think that after an incident like this, things are not as required.”
The public lighting company said it had already fixed the problem.
“Once it is shiny, it is properly bound. There is a defect. But as an installation it must be placed on a post. At that time, they decided on it and this gave a precondition for this to happen,” said Ing. Georgi Guguchkov, a representative of the company that maintains the public lighting.
The lamp and basketball hoop will be removed and replaced with an original streetlight pole and professional hoop. And the family of the injured child insists that they will seek, first a psychologist for the child and then their rights in court.
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