Kanpur: Two brothers were electrocuted after they came in contact with a live wire at Pachor village in Chaubeypur area of the district on late Monday night.
The family members and residents on Tuesday morning placed the bodies and staged a protest and blocked the busy GT Road in Mandhana following the mishap and alleged that the negligence of the power staff led to the death of the youths.
The deceased have been identified as Ajay Kumar Gautam (22) and his brother Karan (20), residents of Pachor village in Chaubeypur.
SP (Rural) Brijesh Kumar Srivastava said the incident occurred late on Monday night, while they were on their way back home when they allegedly came in contact with a live snapped wire in their village. The locals who heard their screams, rushed to see what happened and after finding the victims entangle in wire alerted the police and power department. The power department after taking shut down rushed to the spot and removed the victims from the wire.
The locals then rushed them to a hospital in Kalyanpur, where doctors pronounced them dead on arrival, said the SP further.
Irked over the incident, angry villagers took the bodies to GT Road in Mandhana and staged a blockade demanding that suitable compensation be given to the family of the deceased, besides strict action against guilty power department employees.
The villagers claimed that the incident was not mere an accident, rather it was a case of death due to negligence on part of the power department.
The villagers had at around 7 pm on Monday repeatedly complained about the live snapped wire lying in the village and had asked local sub-station employees for those wires to be removed or fixed from pole to avoid people from getting electrocuted. But the power department staff had ignored it. Monday night’s tragedy which resulted in the death of the siblings because of the same live wires, left the villagers furious.
Senior district and police officials later assured the protesters of strict action against the guilty persons following which they called off the road blockade.