A 20-year-old construction worker was electrocuted at a work site in Arima on Wednesday. Reports said around 3.45 pm Michael Benny, of Brooklyn Settlement, Sangre Grande, was painting a building at the corner of St Joseph Street and Broadway, Arima, when the scaffolding he was standing on came into contact with a high-tension wire. He was taken to the Arima Health Facility by co-workers but was pronounced dead on arrival. Arima Police are investigating.
