Cameroon: Baby Electrocuted in Yaounde

She unknowingly picked up the end of a loose cable cut by a neighbour's angry ex-boyfriend.

Twenty-month old Sophie Yolande Ebene did not live to see the year 2013. She died in the courtyard of her parents' residence in the Ebom (near Simbock) neighbourhood in Yaounde after an electric shock from a loose electric cable that she unknowingly picked up to play with on Sunday, December 30, 2012.

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