Teenager dies while hooking up illegal electricity

A 17-year-old was electrocuted while trying to re-install an illegal electricity connection in Philippi this morning."The young man and a friend tried to switch on the power supply on a pole-mounted transformer in Olieboom Road near the Jim se Bos informal settlement in Philippi at approximately 10:00 after the circuit breaker tripped as a result of overloading from numerous illegal connections‚" the City of Cape Town said in a statement on Monday.