Hanoi, Vietnam (AHN)-In an ironic twist of fate, officials say a Vietnamese man who once appeared on national television to demonstrate his ability to resist electric shocks has been electrocuted while repairing a generator.

Nguyen Van Hung, who was in his early 40s, was killed in Tay Ninh province near the Cambodian border while repairing the generator without first cutting the power supply, with a local official telling Reuters, "When alive, he used to demonstrate at our office how he would insert two fingers into the electrical plughole without problems."

Hung, who was nicknamed "Hung Electric," had appeared on television's "Strange Stories of Vietnam."