{"id":493755,"date":"2025-12-06T19:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/driver-dies-of-electrocution-after-his-vehicle-makes-contact-with-power-lines-in-la-sabina\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:10:28","slug":"driver-dies-of-electrocution-after-his-vehicle-makes-contact-with-power-lines-in-la-sabina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/driver-dies-of-electrocution-after-his-vehicle-makes-contact-with-power-lines-in-la-sabina\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies of electrocution after his vehicle makes contact with power lines in La Sabina"},"content":{"rendered":"A man died this Saturday in the community of <strong>La Sabina<\/strong>, after the vehicle he was driving came into contact with the electrical wiring in the area, causing a strong discharge that cost him his life, according to information provided to this media outlet.\n\nSeveral police units arrived at the scene, headed by Second Lieutenant <strong>L\u00f3pez Biel<\/strong>, from the Blanco Arriba detachment, to begin the process of removal and the corresponding investigation. Minutes later, another unit from <strong>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds<\/strong> joined, because the event occurred on the border between both jurisdictions.\n\nThe victim was identified as <strong>Rafael Almonte<\/strong>, who was regularly involved in the transportation of wood in the community.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-06-at-5.36.16-PM-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-577681\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Garcia Swat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man died this Saturday in the community of La Sabina, after the vehicle he was driving came into contact with the electrical wiring in the area, causing a strong discharge that cost him his life, according to information provided to this media outlet. Several police units arrived at the scene, headed by Second Lieutenant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":493756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[42032],"class_list":["post-493755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-electrocuted"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24rN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-06-at-5.36.10-PM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-06-at-5.36.10-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}