Latest update April 7th, 2026 12:30 AM
Sophia youth burnt badly while trying to retrieve “kite”
A 20-year-old Sophia man who climbed unto a utility pole to retrieve a kite is nursing serious third degree burns about his body. Clinton Charles, a vendor, according to relatives was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital shortly before noon yesterday.
His sister, Maria Prepont, told Kaieteur News yesterday that her brother who only recently returned from Trinidad was flying his kite at the family’s Sophia home. According to Prepont, her brother’s kite got caught between several electrical wires.
Clinton Charles being rushed into the Burns Care unit yesterday.
The woman said that Charles climbed up the utility pole and insisted that he got his kite. His sister said she went inside and within minutes, there was a power outage. She said a short while after, a boy came running and informed her that her brother was “shocked.”
“I ran outside and I see him pitch off the post and on the ground. He crumped up and trembling … his whole face get burn all his back and hand get burns”, the woman related.
Meanwhile the power company in a press statement on Wednesday said that the incident speaks directly to the pubic disregarding precautionary warnings issued by our company on television, radio and online for this Easter season.
According to the power company, with the recent occurrence that they warn the public to never fly kites near power lines. It was noted that it was the number one danger to which kite-flyers are exposed.
“If perhaps it becomes entangled in our Network, never try to recover it as tugging the kite can affect the quality of electricity being supplied to nearby communities and result in loss of life and/or injuries” the power company said.
GPL empathizes with the family of the injured and wishes him a speedy recovery.
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