Premier Roger Cook has said a second person has died after not being able to get through to emergency services when telco Optus suffered an outage on Thursday.

Cook spoke to media on Saturday following news that a 74-year-old man from Willetton had lost his life when he couldn’t get medical help via triple zero because of a failure of the network.

Roger Cook speaking in Kwinana on Saturday about the Optus telco outage. Credit: 9 News Perth

Later on Saturday his office confirmed that a 49-year-old man from Kensington was the second WA victim.

An eight-week-old baby and a 68-year-old woman from South Australia also died during the outage which stretched between 1am and 2pm on Thursday.

Cook said news of the second WA death came from police who had been conducting welfare checks sinc

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