Two labourers were electrocuted after coming in contact with a high tension power line in the SIIDCUl area on Sunday morning. They were working on the top floor of a building which was under construction and were taken to a private hospital where doctors declared them brought dead. On receiving information about the incident, the police reached the hospital and sent the bodies to the district hospital for post-mortem examination.
As per the police, the labourers were binding concrete material on the top floor of a building under construction at Salempur Chowk under jurisdiction of SIIDCUl police station on Sunday morning.
Both were on the top floor for binding concrete material when they came in contact with a high tension overhead power line. Other laborers who were working at the same site somehow managed to bring them down from the roof and called an ambulance.
Speaking to The Pioneer, SIIDCUl police station SHO Deepk Kathait said, “They were taken to a private hospital but declared brought dead.
The victims have been identified as 35 year old Chandramohan Singh alias Sonu and Vikram Singh alias Vicky, both were from Brahmpuri colony under jurisdiction of the Bahadrabad police station in Haridwar. We have not received any complaint so far.
However bodies of the victim were sent to district hospital for post- mortem. If the family members want to take action a case will be registered,” he added.