Live wire falls on girl student

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: A girl student got electrocuted after an electricity pole fell on her while she was walking on Suddagunte Palya Road in the city on Tuesday.

The injured was identified as Priya, a first-year PU student at Christ University in Bengaluru.

According to sources, the incident took place around 2 pm when the student was en route to her PG accommodation from the college during the lunch break.

"The student was walking towards a PG with her friends when the electricity pole fell on some parked vehicles and a live wire fell on the student. She was rushed to St John's Hospital immediately," said a nearby shopkeeper, Shankar.

It surfaced during the preliminary inquiry that the incident took place because of an electric wire got stuck to a moving truck. If local sources are to be believed, one of the electric wires of the electric pole accidentally got stuck to a moving Canter vehicle as it was moving forward.

The wire pulled down the electric pole, which broke and fell on the street. At the same time, the girl student came in contact with an electric wire and got electrocuted.

The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) was alerted about the incident following which electricity was disconnected, he added. The Suddagunte Palya police rushed the girl to a nearby hospital, where she is being treated.

Sources from the police informed that the girl is under observation and her condition is stable. She is said to have received serious burn injuries for which she is being treated.

A case has been registered and a probe has been initiated, said a police official. Speaking to News Trail, the ACP of Mico Layout stated, “The girl has been admitted to a hospital for treatment. As per reports from the hospital, she is out of danger.

A case has been registered in the matter and investigation has been initiated. Further course of legal action in the case has been taken up,” he added.