India: Young worker dies aftershock from high tension wire in Kanpur

Kanpur: In a shocking incident, a young man died due to shock from a high tension line while unloading sand from a dumper.

The deceased, identified as Rohit Shukla, came in contact with a high tension wire while working and suffered a painful death.

Bithoor police reached the spot and took the dead body into it's possession. Later the police sent it for post-mortem.

Brother of the deceased, Vijay Shukla told that we the three brothers used to work as labourers in Kanpur and our job was to unload the sand from the dumper.

The deceased tried to clear the part of the dumper which came in contact with the high tension line having a voltage of 11000 watts and died after getting a shock from it.