India, Aug. 8 -- Many lives have been lost due to electrocution and fire.

New Delhi: The tangled and loose hanging high-tension electrical wires running across almost all residential colonies in Delhi are a common sight and this has over the years taken away many lives which have been lost due to electrocution and fire.

Over the last three years, at least 1,000 calls of short circuit have been received by the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) and all of them, according to DFS officials, were due to the loose hanging high-tension wires which caused the fire.

According to some reports and data available, more than 150 cases of death related to electrocution have been reported from different parts of the city and the situation gets worse during ...