A toddler was electrocuted when he put a live electric wire in his mouth at Kandetara village under the Komna police station in the district late on Tuesday night.
Reportedly, family members of the eight-month-old Kunal had left an electric wire plugged in and went to sleep at night. In the meantime, the baby, who was crawling on the floor at that time, picked up the electric wire and later put it in his mouth. Soon after, his family members rushed him to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) in critical condition.
But doctors at the hospital declared him dead. A postmortem of the body will be conducted, said Nuapada PS IIC Aditya Mahakud.