A foreigner identified as Isa Malick has been reportedly electrocuted at Dangote area of Asa Dam road, Ilorin, Kwara State.

The Niger Republic-born victim was said to have died while trying to remove a wire that fell on the road from his way.

A source who craved anonymity told newsmen that the lifeless body of Malick was found burnt by the roadside.

He said, "I was far away when I saw a lifeless body of the man by the roadside; all I observed was that the body was burnt and I saw an electricity wire, which I suspected fell from the pole.

"I quickly made a call to the police who came to carry the body away".

The spokesman of the state Police Command, Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed that a foreigner's corpse was found around Dangote roundabout.

"We received an information from a good Samaritan that there was a victim of electrocution at the Dangote roundabout and on getting there, a lifeless and burnt body was met.

"Isa Malick, a foreigner from Niger, who intended to remove a wire from his way, got electrocuted", he said.

All efforts made by the police to conduct post mortem examination on the deceased proved abortive as the family said they are Muslims and accepted what had happened as the act of God".