Irbid, Aug. 9 (Petra) -- A 58-year-old man died on Sunday after suffering an electric shock in Al-Mashare' town in the Al-Aghwar Al-Shamaliyah (northern Jordan Valley) district.

Abu Obaida Al-Jarrah Government Hospital Director Mouayyad Al-Shukour told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the man was taken to the hospital's emergency department but arrived dead.

His body was transferred to the Northern Region Forensic Medicine Centre.

//Petra// AF