In separate incidents, two persons and a dog were electrocuted in the city after Monday night rainfall, police said.
In the first incident, which was reported from North Delhi, a North-East woman was electrocuted after she tried to switch on a cooler at her friend’s house in Christian Colony in Maurice Nagar.
According to a senior police official, the deceased has been identified as 22-year-old Ringnam, who is a native of Manipur and had come to Delhi just a few months ago to pursue her career in medicine. Ringnam had been taking MBBS coaching classes in the same locality.
In the second incident, a 62-year-old man and his pet dog were electrocuted to death in South-West Delhi’s Najafgarh area. Police said, the deceased has been identified as Trilok.
At 8.30 am when the incident happened, the deceased was passing by through the area of the incident to visit a local market. “It was raining heavily at that time and the area was completely waterlogged. One particular electric pole was exposed to an open wire. While passing by the area, Trilok came in contact with the pole and got electrocuted,” said the police official.
In a bid to save his master, Trilok’s dog, which was accompanying him, jumped on Trilok and also got electrocuted, police said.
People who saw the accident immediately rushed to the spot to rescue the victims but both were dead by the time they managed to stop power supply to the electricity pole. locals immediately informed police about the incident.
“We received a call around 9 am. We were informed that one person and a dog had been electrocuted. A PCR van reached the spot and took the victim Trilok to the hospital where the doctor declared him brought dead. His body has been sent for the postmortem,” said a police officer.
The residents of the area had complained about waterlogging blaming the BSES and MCD, as they never took any steps to rectify the open wiring.