“It was found that the reason for the shock was an electrical wire that was stripped, lying next to the grass, but which was repaired immediately,” Hugo Pereira told Lusa.

According to today's edition of Correio da Manhã, a five-year-old boy suffered an electric shock from a Christmas light installed in Lagos, on Saturday night, and was assisted by members of the public and a firefighter, who was in the area.

According to the mayor, the child “did not suffer serious injuries, but was taken to the hospital as a precaution and for surveillance, and was discharged on Sunday morning.”

“We [city hall services] have always been in contact with the family and monitoring the child. It was an incident that, fortunately, was nothing more than a big scare”, he highlighted.

According to Hugo Pereira, the lighting safety circuit breaker “should have tripped, that is, cut the electrical current, which did not happen”.

The mayor said that, after the accident, the company responsible for the installation was asked to “carry out a thorough inspection of all Christmas lights installed in the city, in order to assess their safety conditions.”

Hugo Pereira lamented that some of the people who witnessed the accident “had collected and published images on social media, with false information, that the child had suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest”.

“Fortunately, the case did not have serious consequences for the child’s health, contrary to what ended up being reported”, concluded the mayor of the municipality of the district of Faro.