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Shock as flower farm worker electrocuted

The deceased's metal-handle broom touched a live wire. [iStockphoto]

Operations in one of the flower farms in Naivasha were temporarily paralysed after a worker who was cleaning the roof of a greenhouse was electrocuted.

The victim was cleaning the roof when the metal handle of the broom touched a live wire before he was electrocuted as his colleagues scampered for safety.

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