A contractor has died after being electrocuted in a Marks and Spencer store in Kent. Philip Dodd, 62, died after suffering an electric shock in the Royal Victoria Place shopping centre in Tunbridge Wells.
A contractor who died at the Marks and Spencer shop in Tunbridge Wells on Saturday has been named as 62-year-old Philip Dodd.
Mr Dodd was a widower who lived in Horley in Surrey. His family have been informed.
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Police guard a Marks and Spencer store in Tunbridge Wells where a man was killed this afternoon when he was electrocuted. For more on this story visit the ITV News Meridian website.
Kent Police have said they are treating the death of a contractor, who was electrocuted in a Marks and Spencer store in Kent, as "suspicious". A spokeswoman said:
– Kent Police spokeswomanWe were called just before 3.30pm to the store in Calverley Road. It is believed a man suffered an electric shock. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The air ambulance also attended and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating the incident. It is being treated as a suspicious death until the full circumstances are known.
She added that the force could not confirm that the man died as a result of an electric shock as the cause of death had not yet been established.
A Marks and Spencer spokeswoman has said a "tragic incident" had taken place in one of their stores, after a contractor was electrocuted in a Kent shopping centre. She said:
– Marks and Spencer spokeswomanThere has been a tragic incident at the store today and our thoughts are with the family concerned.
We are now concentrating on doing all we can to assist the emergency services with their investigation and as such are unable to comment any further at this stage.
A contractor has died after being electrocuted in a shopping centre in Kent today. The man died after suffering an electric shock in a Marks and Spencers (M&S) store in the Royal Victoria Place shopping centre in Tunbridge Wells.