VELLORE: Four villagers were electrocuted and six others, including a three-year-old female child, sustained injuries at about 6 am when the temple’s four-wheel decorated bullock cart carrying the presiding deity of the Ponniamman Koil came in contact with a high tension wire near the Golden Temple in Ariyurkuppam village on Thursday morning.
K Devaraj (50) of Sathuvachari, C Kumaresan (43), R Jayaprakash (57) and K Rajendran of Ariyurkuppam were electrocuted and thrown away from the chariot. Two of the victims were taken to the Sri Narayani Hospital and the other two were taken to the Government Vellore Medical Hospital (GVMCH ) where the doctors declared them all brought dead.
Six others, including three-year-old Rubika, sustained injuries in the incident and have been admitted to the GVMCH and are undergoing treatment. The doctors have declared them out of danger.
Superintendent of Police of Vellore P K Senthil Kumari, who conducted an inquiry with the villagers, said that the festival organising committee submitted a requisition letter to the sub-station of TANGEDCO in the locality to suspend the power connection on May 19 for the temple festival but failed to mention the temple car procession.
A group of youths carrying huge wooden logs were pushing the wires across the street to enable the procession of the temple car. When they were near the temple, they attempted to do the same with the high-tension line passing across a narrow street. The line, however, came in contact with the decorated chariot . Villagers holding the iron rim around the bullock cart were electrocuted and thrown away, said the SP. The police registered a case against the temple festival organising committee u and launched an investigation.
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