Four days after the Ganjam bus tragedy on February 9 in which 10 persons were electrocuted after coming in contact with an 11-KV wire, a labourer died of electrocution when he accidentally touched a live wire in Gurujanguli village under the Parjang police limits in Dhenkanal district on Thursday.
While constructing a house of one Akhaya Sahu in the village, the deceased, identified as Biswanath Behera, came in contact with the overhead 11-KV wire at around 3 pm. He was rescued in a critical condition and admitted to the Parjang hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
