Greater Noida: An eight-year-old girl was electrocuted and her six-year-old brother was injured when children accidentally stepped on a high voltage wire lying on the ground in the lower location of construction at Tilapta Greater Noida.
Totaram, daily wage workers, said his children – Swati and his brother Raghav – were playing a few meters in front of their rented house in the village when they stepped on a lot of electric cables around 6:30 p.m.
on Sunday.
“My children played outside the house.
They stepped on the cable, one of them had now passed through it,” Totaram said, a native of Bareilly who lived in a single room in Tilaapta with his wife and children.
Totaram and his wife rushed out of the house when the neighbor lifted alarm.
They took two children to Navin Hospital in Dadri.
Swati died during treatment while Raghav was treated with burns at the foot.
The police said that after the family surrendered Swati’s body, they got Raghav was dismissed from the hospital.
Swati was cremated in Ganga Ghat in the Kalkatti Narora area at Anoopshahr.
The family then headed to their home town in Bareilly.
A spokesman for Navin Hospital said Raghav’s parents told management that they would bring their son to other health facilities for treatment.
Families, according to the police, refused to be involved in any legal process.
“There is no information given to the police or the memo received from the hospital,” said Ajay Kumar, Sho of Surajpur Station Police.
8-year-old steps on wire live on the ground, die
