electrocution

Jaipur, March 19 – Two young cousins were fatally electrocuted after coming into contact with a live wire that had fallen onto the road in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, during a period of heavy rainfall and strong winds, officials said here on Thursday.The tragic incident occurred in the Sagar police...

Chamarajanagar (Karnataka), March 17 A tigress is believed to have died due to electrocution on farmland in a village in this district, officials said on Tuesday.The incident occurred in Padaguru village in the Gundlupete taluk, near the Bandipur Tiger Reserve, they said.The tigress was...

Jaipur, March 10 A farmer and his son died from electrocution after coming into contact with a live wire while working in a field in Pratapgarh district of Rajasthan on Tuesday, police said.The incident apparently occurred while the two were using a trolley to spread fertilizer in the field. A...

Yerravaripalem (Andhra Pradesh), March 9 Two elephants died from electrocution on Monday, allegedly after coming into contact with illegal electric snares near the Talakona Reserve forest in the Tirupati district, the forest department said.The elephants, reportedly around 12 years old, were...

Erode (Tamil Nadu), March 6 A male elephant has died of electrocution in the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in this district, according to forest officials.Based on the information, a team of forest personnel visited a private land in Kadaganalli forest village within the Kadambur forest Range...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 3 A father and son were electrocuted when they came into contact with an electric fence in this district on Tuesday, police said.The incident occurred near the Nagaroor Block Office, they added. The deceased have been identified as Kochunni, 58, and his son Akhil, 35...

Thane, March 3 Two migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh have died in separate incidents of electrocution in Thane district, Maharashtra, police said on Tuesday.The incidents occurred in the Kalyan and Dombivli areas of the district on Sunday night, an official said.Sandeep Ghorilal Rawat (35)...

Kolkata, March 2 – The West Bengal government announced on Monday that each of the five workers who were electrocuted in the Dinhata area of Cooch Behar district would receive a compensation of Rs 2 lakh, and one member of their family would be offered a job.North Bengal Development Minister...

Kolkata, March 1 – Five factory workers were electrocuted to death after coming into contact with a 11,000-volt overhead electric line in Dinhata, in the Cooch Behar district of North Bengal, on Sunday, officials said.The incident occurred in the Dinhata Village-II Gram Panchayat area, under...

Barabanki (UP), March 1 Two cousins were electrocuted to death in a village here on Sunday while irrigating their field, officials said.The incident occurred in Ratauli village, under the Asandra area, when Ramkumar Pal (45) and his cousin Saheb Prasad Pal (48) came into contact with a stay...

Jabalpur, February 26 A man and a 16-year-old boy died after coming into contact with a live wire laid around a field in Jabalpur district, Madhya Pradesh, to protect crops from wild boars, a police official said on Thursday.The incident occurred late Wednesday evening in Umaria village, under...

Jabalpur, February 26 The Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve lost eight tigers, including four due to electrocution, over two and a half months spanning 2025 and early 2026, according to a report submitted to the Madhya Pradesh High Court.The status report submitted by the field director of the...

Jabalpur, February 25 – In compliance with the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s order, the field Director of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) submitted a detailed report on the deaths of tigers within the reserve or adjacent areas since November 2025.In its 30-page report, the BTR stated that a...

Bhubaneswar, February 24 Over 800 animals were poached in Odisha over the last five years, state forest minister Ganesh Ram Singkhuntia said in the assembly on Tuesday.In a written reply to a query by BJP legislator Sanjali Murmu, the minister said that 2,836 elephants, tigers, and other wild...

Firozabad (UP), February 19 Two people died from electrocution after a high-voltage power line snapped and fell on them here, police said on Thursday.The incident triggered protests among locals, who claimed that the power line was in a poor condition and multiple requests for repair had gone...

Thane, February 19 Two contractors have been booked in connection with the electrocution of a worker at the Diva railway station, a police official said on Thursday.On December 22, Khangaram Harjiji Rawal (37) suffered an electric shock while digging a pit outside the ticket counter on...

New Delhi, February 14 A 45-year-old man died, allegedly due to electrocution from his electric bed at his residence in the Tri Nagar area of northwest Delhi, police said on Saturday.A PCR call was received at the Keshav Puram police station on February 12 regarding the incident, with the...

Chandauli (UP), February 14 A 25-year-old contract lineman was electrocuted to death while repairing a high-voltage line without safety gear here on Saturday evening, officials said.The victim, identified as Sardum, a resident of Arangi village, was working at the Amda power substation. The...

Mathura (UP), February 10 A 35-year-old farmer died from electrocution, his wife allegedly committed suicide by hanging, and their three minor children died from strangulation in what appears to be a mass suicide incident in the village of Khapparpur in Mathura, police said on Tuesday, citing...

Kolkata, February 9 A construction worker was electrocuted on Monday morning while working on the roof of a house in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal after coming into contact with a live wire, police said.The incident occurred in Golabari, within the jurisdiction of the Shasan...