Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Feb 7: In an incident which occurred at around 11.30 am on Friday February 6 at Annapoorneshwari Layout in Subrahmanyapura in the city, two women related to each other got electrocuted because of a faulty boiler. Policemen gave the names of the deceased as Jnanasundari (55) from Chunchaghatta and hear relative, Prathibha (37).

Jnanasundari's husband, Chandrashekhar, and Pratibha's husband, Ravishankar, work as priests in a nearby temple. Jnanasundari's family members had ventured out of the house after putting the boiler switch on. At that time, Pratibha, living in the adjacent house, visited Jnanasundari. When talking to Pratibha, Jnanasundari remembered that she had been asked to switch off power supply to the boiler. Before putting off the switch, she wanted to check whether the water had become hot enough, and placed her fingers inside the boiler, and instantly got electrocuted. Pratibha, who rushed to the bathroom after hearing the screams of Jnanasundari, tried to life Jnanasundari, but she too collapsed to the ground as power got transmitted through her.

Chandrashekhar, who reached home sometime later, saw both the women and made arrangements to shift them to hospital. However, they did not survive the journey.

A report about this incident stand registered in Subrahmanyapura polie station here.