Le Van Thuong, 53, used an electric cord to kill his wife and attempted to stage the scene as an electrocution, but police quickly uncovered the deception.
Three young men in Dien Chau commune were electrocuted and hospitalized in critical condition after a bamboo Neu pole they were erecting tangled with a 35 kilovolt power line.
A couple in Nhan Hoa commune was electrocuted when their bamboo New Year's pole entangled with a 35 kV power line, leaving the wife with severe burns and a risk of limb amputation.
