THE twenty-four-year-old mother of two who was electrocuted Wednesday at Bush Lot Village, West Coast Berbice, managed to shout a warning to her relatives not to hold her before they had turned off the main switch.

“She shouted, ‘No don’t come near. Don’t hold me. Go and turn off the main switch’; but by the time we could ketch we self and run to turn off the switch, it was too late,” a distraught mother-in-law of the late Juliet Mohabir told the Chronicle yesterday.

Mohabir died at the home of her mother-in-law on Wednesday afternoon when she held a live drop-cord while trying to plug it into a transformer to provide power for a refrigerator.

Relatives said that the drop cord had been plugged into power in the upper flat of the two storeyed building.

They concurred that the fatal error made by the young woman was that she was apparently unaware of this and had held the end of the drop cord when attempting to plug it into the transformer in the lower flat.

The family and extended family of the dead woman was yesterday still overcome with grief at her sudden death.

Lying in a hammock, her eyes swollen and red with tears, Narda Mohabir, Juliet’s mother, said, “She was a dutiful, loving and hardworking daughter.”

Mohabir’s mother-in-law, Kuntie Sookdeo, eyes also red with tears, said, “She gave me a meal around midday: fried aloo (potato) chips, eggs and drinks, and we talked about our plans for Christmas. I promised her to join with her and buy some things for Christmas, not knowing that that would be our last conversation.”

She too praised the young lady for being an indefatigable housewife.

“She like working in the home; cooking; cleaning. She and her sister- in-law had just finished washing the walls when she met her death,” Mrs Sookdeo said.

 

Ow me baby! Ow me Baby”, Mrs Sookdeo said, breaking into a fresh round of tears.

The dead woman is survived by her husband, Looknauth Sookdeo, and her two children, Reshmi, two, and Ganesh, seven months.

A post mortem is to be conducted on the body today and relatives say they are considering a funeral on Sunday.

Friday, November 21 2008