Six persons were injured after they were electrocuted while putting up a post along the Bacolod-Negros Occidental Economic Highway in Brgy. Sum-ag, Bacolod City, on Saturday, Feb. 8.
The victims were trying to put up a steel post where solar lights were placed along the center island of the road, the police reported.
The backhoe they were using to put up the post accidentally touched a live wire causing the electrocution.
The victims, who are all construction workers, were brought to a hospital and are now in a stable condition.*