A boa died after receiving an electric shock on 52nd Street between 69 and 67 in downtown Mérida on the morning of August 17.
Merchants from the area who arrived very early to work said that from 7 in the morning, they saw the reptile on the highest part of the pole, a few meters from the intersection of 52nd and 69th streets. It was there until some birds approached her and began to disturb it.
The witness reported that the boa constrictor tried to get rid of the birds or get off the pole. However, its body slipped between the cables. The latter caused an electric shock. According to witnesses, it sounded like a loud explosion.
The snake fell from the high-voltage cables and was left hanging on the medium-voltage cables. It was already dead from the burns throughout its body. Several people said that the electric shock caused problems, such as a fire outbreak in the electrical installation of an Internet cafe.
Also, an internet cable caught fire, but they put it out. The worker at a store indicated the shock damaged a computer.
Since the cables still had power, the fire department could not remove the reptile. The merchants in the area indicated that they would wait for the CFE to do so since no businesses in the area had electricity.
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