Representative image showing electrocution sign.
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Jaisalmer: A man was charred to death after he touched a high-tension electricity cable when he went on top of a railway coach to sleep.
The incident took place on Tuesday night at the Pokhran Railway Station in the Jaisalmer district.
Police said the victim, identified as Jagdish, worked with a firm engaged in electrification work at the railway station.
He was electrocuted when he climbed atop a train coach stationed at the yard tracks to sleep but inadvertently touched the high-tension live wire passing above it, the police said.
The charred body was shifted to a government hospital's mortuary in Pokhran for postmortem.
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