A ZESCO engineer has died after being electrocuted in Livingstone while trying to connect a house to the electricity grid. ZESCO sources confirmed the incident, saying it occurred on Sunday at around 11:00 hours in Nakatindi residential area, west of Livingstone. “On Sunday, March 22, at around 08:00 hours, a team of five ZESCO employees namely Kalinda Haampela, 39, of Mwandi Extension, now deceased; Terry Mwikisa Musiwa, 39, of Maramba Compound; Lordwell Hamajala, 56, of Maramba; Golden Kabuswe, 52, of Abote Avenue; and Naphius Hadangalike, 48, of Kabila were assigned to connect power to three houses from one ZESCO pole line in Nakatindi Compound. After one house was worked on, and as they were connecting the second house, Haampela, who...

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