Akola, Aug. 13 -- In a tragic incident during slab construction, one minor labourer was electrocuted and 13 others sustained injury in Telhara taluka, in Maharashtra's Akola district, police said.
According to police the incident took place last evening while removing a cement concrete mixer after laying the slab at the residence of resident Vanshata Boringe in Vadgaon Rothe village.
After the work was completed, the cement concrete mixer was being moved aside when it came into contact with an electric wire, causing a powerful electric shock, police said.
All 14 labourers who touched the mixer were affected.
A 17-year-old boy, named Omprakash Keshavrao Jambhale, from Vasadi village in Buldhana district, succumbed to the shock.
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