Daijiworld Media Network – Byndoor (SS)
Byndoor, Apr 27: A 16-year-old college student died of electrocution at Nayakanakatte in Kergal gram panchayat limits after he came in contact with a live electric wire.
The victim who has been identified as Chetan Shetty was the son of Vasanth Shetty, a resident of Nellihaklu in Bijoor village.
Chetan Shetty who was studying his first pre-university at Uppanda was working in a shamiyana company as his college was closed for vacation. As there was an Upanayana function at a household in Nayakanakatte he was pitching a tent by climbing on an iron ladder. By sheer accident, he came in contact with a live electric wire that was used for decoration lighting with a pin piercing his chest. He suffered an electric shock and fell down.
He was immediately rushed to a Kundapura hospital where the doctors declared him dead on examination.
Byndoor police have registered a case.