KANPUR: In a tragic incident, four minor siblings were electrocuted after accidentally coming in contact with a naked wire of a pedestal fan at their house in Lalman Kheda village in Barasagwar area of Unnao district on Sunday evening.
According to reports, Mayank (9), Himanshi (8), Himank (6) and Mansi (4), all four children of Virendra Kumar, were playing at home when one of them accidentally touched the naked wire of the fan and got electrocuted.
On hearing the child’s screams, other brothers and sisters ran to save their sibling, but unfortunately, they too got electrocuted and died on the spot.
Police said that all the elders of the house had gone to work in the field when the incident took place.
On being informed, the Barasagwar police reached the spot and sent the bodies for postmortem examination.
As per preliminary findings, police suspect they all died of electric shock.
Circle officer (CO), city, Ashutosh Kumar said, “Given the circumstances at the spot, it seems that one of the children got electrocuted after touching the fan and then while trying to rescue him his other siblings also got electrocuted.”
