A 53-year-old wireman attached to the Gorimedu TNEB office was electrocuted while attending to a complaint on Friday. According to the police, M. Kumar of Periya Kollapatti went to Tiruveni Garden on Chettichavadi Main Road on Friday afternoon to fix a faulty line on an electric pole . While he was attending to the problem, he was electrocuted. The Kannankurichi police recovered the body and sent it to Salem Government Hospital for postmortem. The police have registered a case in this regard.