Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Apr 13: After a severed live electric cable fell on people playing in the water of a rivulet, two persons were killed and two others were injured. The incident happened in Suvarnavathi rivulet at Hebbasur village in Chamarajanagar taluk.

Manjula (40), wife of Kannan from Chamarajanagar and her daughter, Yashashree (9), died in the incident. Manjula's other daughter, Shravyashree and relative, Nagamma, survived with injuries. They are being treated at the district hospital at Chamarajanagar.

The family had left home to take part in the Kendotsava organized at their native place, Kumbheshwara Colony. As Yashashree was adamant that the family should visit the rivulet and play in the water, the family members did so when the cable got severed and directly fell on Yashashree, in which incident, both the mother and daughter died. Kavyashree and Nagamma who were nearby suffered shocks and got injured. Other family members escaped unscathed.

Haveri: After Ramesh Nayaka (8), a second standard student, who stepped on an electric cable that had fallen to the ground on account of strong wind and rain that had lashed the area on Wednesday night, lost his life on Thursday. His grandfather, Vasappa Boolappa Nayaka, who tried to save the boy, suffered injuries. The villagers rescued him before he suffered further.