One individual was killed and 14 youths injured attributable to electrocution in Vadodara district’s Dabka village late Tuesday evening once they have been engaged on erecting a pandal for the upcoming Ganesh Chaturthi competition.
In accordance with police, the incident came about shortly earlier than midnight when a youth group was engaged on erecting the pandal construction of metallic rods and got here involved with an overhead high-tension wire. Whereas Prakash Jadav was killed on the spot, 14 others who suffered burn accidents have been rushed to the referral hospital in Vadu in Padra taluka. They’re all steady, mentioned Vadodara police.
Jadav ran a provision retailer within the village and is survived by his spouse and their six-year-old daughter.
An officer of Vadu police station mentioned, “The competition begins Saturday close to the Verai Mata temple within the village. They have been engaged on a 15-foot tall construction of metallic bars, one among which got here involved with the 11KW high-tension electrical energy wire overhead. We now have registered a case of unintentional loss of life and begun a probe.”
Mahesh Jadav, a member of the Ganesh Mandal of the village mentioned, “There might be no celebration… We now have been organising pandals for over 40 years and this was to be the forty first 12 months of Ganesh festivities within the village. We now have booked a Ganesh idol of 12 toes from a sculptor in Vadodara. The plan was to finish the pandal by Friday and obtain the Lord’s idol, however now this tragedy has struck and your complete village is in mourning. We now have determined to solely set up a symbolic tobacco nut to wish to Lord Ganesh.”
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