A 28-year-old Bangalore Electrical energy Provide Firm (BSECOM) employee died of electrocution on Monday in what seems to be the primary case of electrocution in Bengaluru this yr. The deceased has been recognized as Gautham. He was repairing a transformer whereas on night time responsibility when he was electrocuted, information company PTI reported.
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The incident occurred within the metropolis’s Gopalapura space. Gautham acquired a grievance about sparks in a transformer on Monday morning and climbed the electrical pole to examine and restore it. Nevertheless, he got here in touch with a stay wire and was electrocuted immediately. CCTV footage of the incident confirmed Gautham falling from the pole, whereas on-lookers and by-standers rushed to assist him.
Gautham was taken to a hospital the place he succumbed to his accidents, PTI quoted police as saying. A number of stories stated a grievance was filed by Gautham’s father, Rangaswamy, on the Magadi highway police station, the place he blamed the electrical energy board of negligence.
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Bengaluru noticed a variety of electrocution-related instances final yr, 4 of which happened inside a span of simply over a month – in April to Could. Summer time showers claimed a 21-year-old youth’s life, who was electrocuted when he got here in shut contact with a minimize wire hanging from an electrical pole, whereas a 22-year-old man was electrocuted as he was strolling on a footpath in Bengaluru’s Sanjaynagar. Two different males and a lady, aged 30, 40 and 23, respectively, had been additionally killed because of electrocution final yr.
(With inputs from PTI)