The police stated that the incident has prompted the concerned authorities to carry out a safety audit of electricity infrastructure and all-electric poles to prevent similar incidents in the future.
West Bengal: According to reports, Students were electrocuted due to a broken power cable.
The victim Manickam and his five dogs came in contact with the live electric fence and were electrocuted instantly. His friends managed to escape.
Electrocution death: The electric wire was kept connected to an iron door. The incident took place in Saikheda village under Kotwali police station limits on Monday. The man was a habitual drinker and this often led to quarrels with his wife, Kotwali police station in-charge Apaala Singh said.
Maneri police post in charge Pankaj Vishwakarma said the bus was carrying a marriage party.
The three injured children have been shifted to Sadar Hospital for medical treatment.
Heavy rain lashed the metropolis and some other districts of West Bengal, a day after cyclone 'Yaas' wreaked havoc in several places
Raju and Mallika had gone to catch fish in the pond and accidentally stamped on the wire leading to instant death, the police said.
The incident took place at Indlabele in Anekal Taluk on Wednesday where the groundbreaking ceremony of a multi-storey residential building was held.
A 30-year-old priest was electrocuted to death inside the sanctum sanctorum of the famous Basukinath temple in Dumka on Wednesday, the police said.
Six members of a family were electrocuted to death after a short-circuit at a house in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Monday.
According to Superintendent of Police (City) Abhinandan Singh, the incident took place at the Biharipur police outpost in the city.
The incident took place in Bahjoi area when Safleen (40) and others were taking out 'tazia', police said.
Ramesh was chasing away animals who had entered his agriculture field on Friday when he accidently came in contact with a high tension wire, ASP Gyananjay Singh said.
A woman and her son died after being electrocuted by a table fan here on Saturday, police said. The woman's husband also received an electric shock while trying to save the two.
Five students aged 14-16 years were electrocuted to death in a freak mishap on the terrace of a residential school building in Karnataka.
"Since the metal pole, which was supposed to be used to hoist the tricolour, was lying on the terrace of the school, the two teenaged students went upstairs to bring it to the ground. But when they lifted the pole, it accidentally touched a live wire hanging over the terrace," he said.
Saujan Rai, 15, a resident of Trishulchowk in Morang district of eastern Nepal, died as he received multiple electric shocks, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Raj Kumar Khai.
This is the second incident of electrocution of wild tuskers in Dudhwa buffer zone. On July 8, 2011, three wild tuskers-- a male, female and their calf-- were killed due to electrocution.
When the wire fell into the school, the students were at a distance but the water had collected in the compound after rainfall due to which they came in contact with electricity, District Magistrate Karun Karunesh said. Fifty students sustained injuries and they were shifted to nearby hospitals, he said.
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