<p>A labourer was electrocuted and six others were injured when a trolley they were standing on touched a high-tension wire in Outer Delhi’s Alipur area on Thursday afternoon.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The labourers were installing a temporary shed (pandal) at a wedding venue by standing on a trolley when accidently it touched an overhead high tension wire causing a strong electric shock.<br /><br />“The incident happened around 3 pm when the workers were installing a pandal at the wedding venue,” said an eyewitness.<br /><br />“As the labourers were dragging the trolley on the ground, it suddenly touched an overhead high-tension wire and the current pulled them towards it. All got glued to the metal trolley due to the electric shock,” the eyewitness said.<br /><br />Other labourers standing there then picked ropes lying on the ground and threw it towards the trolley. They then pulled it away from the wire.<br /><br />All the seven labourers – Danish, 24, Majeed, 40, Imran, 19, Anwar, 17, Anas, 14, Usman, 28, and Mustakim, 26, were taken in two vehicles arranged by the owner of the wedding venue to Narela’s Raja Harish Chandra Hospital.<br /><br />Danish was declared brought dead by the doctors, and the rest were referred to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital. Out of the injured two have sustained 70% burn injuries, and their condition is said to be serious but stable.<br /><br />All the injured and the deceased hail from Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh. Police have registered a case. Police are questioning the owner of the Palm Green farm house where the wedding venue was located. Police have sent the body for postmortem.</p>
<p>A labourer was electrocuted and six others were injured when a trolley they were standing on touched a high-tension wire in Outer Delhi’s Alipur area on Thursday afternoon.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The labourers were installing a temporary shed (pandal) at a wedding venue by standing on a trolley when accidently it touched an overhead high tension wire causing a strong electric shock.<br /><br />“The incident happened around 3 pm when the workers were installing a pandal at the wedding venue,” said an eyewitness.<br /><br />“As the labourers were dragging the trolley on the ground, it suddenly touched an overhead high-tension wire and the current pulled them towards it. All got glued to the metal trolley due to the electric shock,” the eyewitness said.<br /><br />Other labourers standing there then picked ropes lying on the ground and threw it towards the trolley. They then pulled it away from the wire.<br /><br />All the seven labourers – Danish, 24, Majeed, 40, Imran, 19, Anwar, 17, Anas, 14, Usman, 28, and Mustakim, 26, were taken in two vehicles arranged by the owner of the wedding venue to Narela’s Raja Harish Chandra Hospital.<br /><br />Danish was declared brought dead by the doctors, and the rest were referred to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital. Out of the injured two have sustained 70% burn injuries, and their condition is said to be serious but stable.<br /><br />All the injured and the deceased hail from Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh. Police have registered a case. Police are questioning the owner of the Palm Green farm house where the wedding venue was located. Police have sent the body for postmortem.</p>
