Six persons, including minor children, were electrocuted to death at a village under Rupohi police station in Assam’s Nagaon district on Friday even as Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal ordered an inquiry into the tragic incident.
The incident took place at Uttar Khatowal village in Nagaon district when six persons, including children, got down to a fishery to fish and got electrocuted. “A faulty electric high voltage wire got snapped and reportedly electrocuted the villages fishery. The locals intimated this to the local line man of the electricity board. The electricity was cut off initially and the six people got down to the fishery. However, after sometime, all the six persons died due to electrocution,” said the police.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal ordered an inquiry into the electrocution incident which reportedly killed six people at Rupohihat Legislative Assembly Constituency at Uttar Khatowal village in Nagaon district.
The Chief Minister have asked Additional Chief Secretary and Chairman APDCL Jishnu Barua to enquire into the incident. “The inquiry will primarily be encompassing within its ambit the circumstances leading to the electrocution and submit the report to the government immediately,” a statement issued by the Chief Minister’s office said.
Meanwhile, the irate mob attacked and vandalized the house of local line man holding him responsible for the incident.