The shocking incident is reported from Suizhou, central China's Hubei on Monday.
The nearly one-minute CCTV clip shows a man going out of the gate. As he returns after a brief interval and enters the gate, he gets electrocuted. The fatal mishap appears to have happened after the dusk.
However, according to reports, the property management office denied any problem with the gate, saying that the person was drunk.
A police investigation is going on.
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