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Woman electrocuted in Andhra Pradesh

| @indiablooms | Jul 05, 2019, at 07:49 pm

Eluru, July 5 (UNI): A 65-year-old woman was electrocuted and another injured at Kalarayanagudem village of Lingapalem Mandal in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on Friday.

Police said that Manjula Sarojini (65) of Kalarayanigudem went to the house of her grandson Atchi Nagarjuna in the same village recently. She went to terrace to dry up the clothes along with her granddaughter Saraswati. While Saraswati tried to hang the wet clothes on an iron wire, she was electrocuted as power was passing on it.

When Sarojini's grandmother went to her rescue, she was electrocuted and died on the spot. The seriously injured Saraswati was shifted to Eluru Government Hospital.

Dharmajigudem police registered a case and shifted the body of Sarojini to government hospital for post-mortem.


 

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