A 59-year-old woman died on Saturday afternoon electrocuted by a low-voltage electric cable that fell in her garden in Piets-Plasence-Moustrou, a small village in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques located between Pau and Orthez, we learned from the firefighters and the gendarmerie.
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According to the gendarmerie, the victim was probably electrocuted while trying to move this bare cable which was in the brush.
She was found unconscious on the ground by members of her family who unsuccessfully tried to revive her and called for help.
Arrived on the scene, the firefighters and the Samu noted his death.
Enedis went to the site to "
cut off the electricity in the area
".
The gendarmerie specified to carry out a usual investigation to specify the circumstances of the death.
