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In a tragic incident, a Dalit couple was electrocuted in a rain-soaked sugarcane area at Bodulabanda village in Nelakondapalli mandal on Thursday.
The victims have been recognized as T. Anand Rao, 60, and his spouse Parvathamma, 55, each farm labourers of Bodulabanda.
Sources mentioned the couple was employed by an area sugarcane farmer to straighten the rain-soaked sugarcane vegetation in his agricultural area on Thursday morning.
Parvathamma reportedly got here in touch with a snapped stay electrical wire caught in slush within the partially waterlogged sugarcane area. She suffered electrical shock and died immediately.
Anand Rao was additionally electrocuted whereas making an attempt to avoid wasting his spouse.
Sources mentioned that the stay wire obtained indifferent from the electrical pole abutting the agricultural area as a result of gusty winds that lashed the village on Wednesday evening.
Sources near the household of the victims mentioned the tragedy wouldn’t have occurred had the sugarcane farmer, who engaged the duo in farm work, alerted the TSNPDCL linemen concerning the snapped stay wire in time and the workers involved attended to it promptly.
They demanded that the authorities present enough ex-gratia to the bereaved members of the family of the deceased couple and take applicable measures to forestall recurrence of such tragic incidents.
The Nelakondapalli police registered a case and are investigating.
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