<p>A 13-year-old boy, enjoying summer holidays with friends, was electrocuted atop a mango tree in Jeevan Bima Nagar, Bengaluru, on Sunday morning.</p>.<p>Bharat was playing with his friends when he had a fruit, shared by his pals. He wanted one more and proceeded to pluck another mango from the tree by climbing it. Little did he know that a live electric wire was passing through the tree. He used a wet stick to reach the fruit and was electrocuted.</p>.<p>A passerby rushed Bharat to hospital, but he was declared brought dead. According to doctors, the boy had died in two minutes as it was a high voltage wire.</p>.<p>Bharat was the elder son of Aiyappa and Maralamma, a couple which hailed from Andhra Pradesh and shifted to Bengaluru four years ago. He was studying in Class 7 at a BBMP school in Jeevan Bima Nagar.</p>.<p>“An 11 KV line of Bescom is covered by the tree. The boy was probably not aware of the live wire passing through the tree. He touched the wire with a stick and got electrocuted,” a senior police officer at JB Nagar police told <span class="italic">DH</span>.</p>.<p>The police have booked Bescom officials under 304(a) for causing death by negligence and are investigating.</p>
<p>A 13-year-old boy, enjoying summer holidays with friends, was electrocuted atop a mango tree in Jeevan Bima Nagar, Bengaluru, on Sunday morning.</p>.<p>Bharat was playing with his friends when he had a fruit, shared by his pals. He wanted one more and proceeded to pluck another mango from the tree by climbing it. Little did he know that a live electric wire was passing through the tree. He used a wet stick to reach the fruit and was electrocuted.</p>.<p>A passerby rushed Bharat to hospital, but he was declared brought dead. According to doctors, the boy had died in two minutes as it was a high voltage wire.</p>.<p>Bharat was the elder son of Aiyappa and Maralamma, a couple which hailed from Andhra Pradesh and shifted to Bengaluru four years ago. He was studying in Class 7 at a BBMP school in Jeevan Bima Nagar.</p>.<p>“An 11 KV line of Bescom is covered by the tree. The boy was probably not aware of the live wire passing through the tree. He touched the wire with a stick and got electrocuted,” a senior police officer at JB Nagar police told <span class="italic">DH</span>.</p>.<p>The police have booked Bescom officials under 304(a) for causing death by negligence and are investigating.</p>
