Two children, aged four and 12, were on Thursday killed after they came in contact with a wire fence around a farm through which electric current had been passed at Sartanpar in Talaja tehsil of Bhavnagar district.
The farm belonged to Gambhirbhai Baria who had illegally passed electric current through the fence to keep the wild animals like blue bulls at bay, police said.
A similar electric fence had claimed the life of a lioness last week at Dedar in Khamba tehsil of Amreli district.
The two children, Kavita Gujaria (4) and Sanjay Gujaria (12) touched the fence of Baria's farm while on their way to buy chocolates from his shop near his land. Both got electrocuted and died on the spot, police said.
A case under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code was lodged against Baria.
Farmers in the area resort to electrifying their fences due to the blue bull menace. This is mostly done illegally, without permission of the electricity department.
last Saturday a lioness was killed at Dedar in Khamba taluka of Amreli district after getting electrocuted in the same way.