Another civic shocker claims 8-year-old's life
LUCKNOW, July 28 -- In yet another shocking instance of civic negligence, an eight-year-old boy died after accidentally coming in contact with a high-voltage transformer at Shankarpuri Colony in Phool Bagh area of Lucknow's Qaiserbagh on Sunday afternoon when he went to retrieve a cricket ball.
The boy, identified as Mohammad Fahad, was playing with the local children when the ball rolled near an open transformer inside the neighbourhood park, his family said. "As he moved to retrieve it, he was electrocuted after touching the exposed transformer," said the boy's uncle Mohammad Raes. The feeder manager responsible for the transformer's maintenance was suspended after the incident. P2...
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