Following a rainstorm that tore through southeast Michigan on Monday, a 14-year-old girl was killed

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and hundreds of thousands were left without electricity. The girl touched a live electrical wire

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that had been brought down outside her home and was electrocuted in Monroe, south of Detroit.

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According to PowerOutage.US, 630,000 people in Michigan are without electricity, including 190,000

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people in Wayne County, which includes part of Detroit. Emergency services were summoned to reports

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of an electrocution on Peters Street in Monroe at 7:41 p.m. on Monday. The Monroe Public Safety Department

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released the following statement on its Facebook page: "Emergency personnel arrived to discover that

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the female subject was still in touch with the energised electrical line, which fell as a consequence

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of a passing thunderstorm. In order for emergency personnel to attend to the victim, DTE Energy crews

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were contacted and the electrical lines were unplugged. When the situation was safe and

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the victim could receive aid, it became clear that she had died from her wounds. Detectives from the

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Monroe Police Department are completing the investigation. "The victim's family was

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present when this incident took place. Presently on the scene, Monroe Police Chaplains are offering the family.

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