2 dead, 5 injured after being electrocuted by electric fence
SHIZUOKA — Two men died and five other people, including two children, from two families were injured after they were electrocuted by an electrified fence set up by a local resident to keep out deer and other wild animals from hydrangeas in Nishi-Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Sunday.
According to police, the group consisted of two men aged 42 and 47, three women and two children aged 8 and 3. Fuji TV reported that the incident occurred at around 4:40 p.m.
An electrified fence had been put up along a riverbank. Police said one of the men suffered an electric shock when he entered the river, while the others were electrocuted as they tried to assist him.
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The resident put up the wiring on the side of the river channel (ie not his property) where it would totally never be submerged during a storm, to protect a bunch of flower you can buy anywhere for a couple of hundred yen.