Kolkata: Three persons including a six-year-old child were electrocuted during a picnic at Baneshwarpur in West Bengal’s 24 Parganas (South) district on Sunday, police said.
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The tragedy occurred when the child caught an overhead high voltage cable while playing on the terrace of a school where the picnic was being held.
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The child was electrocuted, and seeing his condition, some other picnickers rushed to rescue him using bamboo poles and logs. But in the process, two more got electrocuted, a police officer said.
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The deaths were confirmed by doctors at a local hospital where the victims were taken.
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