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6 electrocuted in Assam as 11000 volt transmission line snaps

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GUWAHATI: In a shocking incident, six persons of Khatowal village in Juria of Nagaon district of Assam were killed due to electrocution on Friday morning  when an 11000 volt electrical transmission line snapped and fell on a group of persons who were fishing in a water body.
The deceased were identified as Rafiqul Islam, Jabbar Ali, Moinul Islam, Habibur Rahman, Inamul Islam and Ashikul Islam, police informed. The injured were admitted to hospital.
Meanwhile, Assam government has suspended three power department employees including sub-divisional officer Pallab Das, one junior engineer and a worker Fakhrul Islam.
Assam chief minister Sarbanada Sonowal had immediately asked the minister of state (independent charge) for power, Tapan Gogoi to rush to the accident site where the six persons were electrocuted. Enraged at the incident, a group of people ransacked the residence of a power department employee and damaged a vehicle. They blamed negligence of the Power Department for the tragedy.
Assam’s Water Resources Minister, Keshab Mahanta, who had rushed to Juria after the tragedy had struck there, announced that a magisterial probe would held into the incident and the state government would provide adequate compensation to the next of kin of deceased persons. The minister visited the injured who were undergoing treatment in the hospital.
Meanwhile, former Chief Minister and an Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) MLA,  Prafulla Kumar Mahanta also visited the persons injured in the incident of  and demanded adequate compensation to the next of kin of deceased and into the incident.

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