Four men got electrocuted while taking shelter under a tarpaulin tent of shops adjacent to Haj House in Nampally due to heavy downpour on Monday night.
The four victims, who worked for Gemini circus near Jubilee Bus Stand in Secunderabad for the past one month, hailed from Kandwa district of Madhya Pradesh. They came to Nampally to catch a train for their village.
As they got off a bus at Nampally, it started raining heavily.
The quartet, along with another friend, ran towards the shops at Haj House and stood under the tarpaulin tent covering some shops which caters for Haj pilgrims.
Serious burns“Somehow, electric wires from the shops to the high tension wire got snapped resulting in short circuit. All the five suffered shock and serious burns,” Central zone DCP V.B. Kamalasan Reddy told The Hindu .
Four of the injured were rushed to Medwin hospital and another to Osmania General Hospital. Four of them died and were identified as Ramkesh, 17, Kausal, 18, Roopend, 20 and Sushil Kumar Yadav, 20. The injured Nagin was being treated at Medwin hospital.
Electricity department officials told the police that they were trying to ascertain how the wires got snapped. An eyewitness said one of the snapped wires fell in the puddle formed due to the downpour and the five suffered electric shock since they were standing close to it.
Deputy Chief Minister, Mohd Mahmood Ali, Hyderabad Mayor Majid Hussain, Charminar MLA Ahmed Pasha Quadri, Secunderabad MP Bandaru Dattatreya, BJP State President G. Kishan Reddy visited Medwin Hospital.
