Christmas lights crashed in Lagos on Saturday night, after an exposed wire gave an electric shock to a 5 year old child, in the in Jardim da Constituição area.
Yesterday, Hugo Pereira, the Mayor of Lagos, clarified that “it was found that the reason for the shock was an electrical wire that was exposed and was next to the grass, but it was repaired immediately.”
The young boy was assisted by locals, and a firefighter who was in the area. Luckily, he “did not suffer serious injuries, but was taken to hospital as a precaution and for monitoring, and was discharged on Sunday morning”.
“We (the local authority services) were always in contact with the family and monitoring the child. It was an incident that, fortunately, was nothing more than a big scare,” the Mayor highlighted.
According to Pereira, the lighting safety circuit breaker “should have tripped, i.e., cut off the electrical current, which did not happen”.
The mayor added that, after the accident, the company responsible for the installation was asked to “carry out a thorough inspection of all the Christmas lights installed in the city, in order to assess their safety conditions.”
Some of the people who witnessed the accident “had collected and published images on social media, with false information, that the child had suffered a cardiac arrest”, said the Mayor, “fortunately, the case did not have serious consequences for the child’s health, contrary to what was reported by onlookers."
