A 52-year-old man died of electrocution when he came in contact with a live high tension wire in the Teela Shabazpur village area, the police said today.
SHO Loni border Arun Kumar said that Harvilas alias Ranjit, resident of Sonu city, had gone out of his house to buy something last evening when the high tension wire broke down and fell upon him. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared him as brought dead, he said.
The family members of the deceased kept his body outside the sub-station while raising slogans against the electricity department this morning, Kumar Said.
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