Man electrocuted in 'freak accident'
A man has been electrocuted at Maclean in northern New South Wales.
The man's small dog was also killed in what police have desribed as "a freak accident".
They say a chicken wire fence built to contain the dog became live after an electrical short-circuit in a neighbouring house.
The 22-year old man was in bare feet and in the rain when he touched the fence, apparently trying to help the dog which was unconscious and lying near the fence.
