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NewsWhore
06-23-2008, 05:30 PM
Today's newspapers give the account of a little girl who stepped on a live wire inside her home and was electrocuted. Dr. Julio Manuel Rodriguez Grullon, the head of the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital, says that in 2007 274 people were killed by electrocution, more than came to the health center for dengue, measles, TB, malaria or other illnesses. According to the doctor, 94% of those who were killed by electricity died as they tried to hook up an illegal connection to the power grid.

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