India, July 29 -- LUCKNOW The death of a boy after accidentally coming in contact with a high-voltage transformer has plunged Shankarpuri Colony of Qaiserbagh into grief. Silence prevails over a neighbourhood, which used to echo with sounds of children playing in the park, a day after Mohammad Fahad, 8, died while retrieving a cricket ball from near the transformer on Sunday afternoon.

The boy was playing with local children when the ball rolled near the open transformer inside the neighbourhood park.

"My son hasn't stepped out since the tragedy. He keeps asking if what happened to Fahad could happen to him too," said a local resident, holding back tears.

Mourners continue to pour into Fahad's home. "He was the heart of our house, the ...