Painters killed as mobile scaffolding touches 10,000 Volt power line

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Shocking Video

This video was posted to you tube on Sunday showing the horrific scene as four Chinese painters are electrocuted while moving a 9meter high mobile scaffold tower.

Sadly three of the men died from there injures after the tower touched a 10,000 volt high tension power line supplying the a factory in Nancun China . According to the report in the comments on you tube the scaffold was being used for changing a light bulb in another area of the factory. The painters had there own idea and thought they would use it for a painting job not noticing  the power lines over head.

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