A Class-VI student of the Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhaya Balika Ashram, a girls’ residential school, at Majhiguda in the district was electrocuted on Monday morning.
The 11-year-old girl identified as Sneha Garada was electrocuted after coming in contact with a live wire while dancing near the barbed wire fencing of the ashram.
Sources said a live electricity wire was hanging on the barbed wire fencing of the residential school after snapping from an electric pole. In the morning, when a wedding procession was going in front of the school, Sneha came out and started dancing near the fence.
Later, she accidentally came in contact with the fence and become unconscious.
Though she was rushed to a nearby hospital, doctors declared her dead.