16-y-o electrocuted while picking coconuts in Clarendon
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September 21, 2026
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CLARENDON, Jamaica — Police in Clarendon are reporting that a schoolboy was electrocuted on Sunday in Gimme-Me-Bit district when an iron pipe he was reportedly using to pick coconuts got entangled with an electric wire.
The deceased has been identified as Rishane Roberts, 16, a student of Garvey Maceo High
A police report said about 9:00 am on Sunday, the teen was standing on a rooftop of a shop on the same premises as his home, picking the coconuts with the iron pipe, when he was electrocuted. His 34-year-old mother, upon hearing a commotion, pulled him off the rooftop.
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