100 electrocuted annually due to illegal connections

Virtually 100 folks in Sri Lanka die yearly because of electrocution whereas trying to acquire CEB electrical energy on the sly, Supervisor of the Investigation Unit of the Ceylon Electrical energy Board (CEB) Indika Fernando mentioned.

Most of those victims had tried to faucet electrical energy illegally by connecting iron hooks to the reside cables of CEB electrical energy energy strains countrywide, he informed the Sunday Observer. Fernando mentioned the variety of variety of unlawful electrical energy connections had elevated

and therefore, about 560 CEB investigators have been deployed to nab energy pirates countrywide.