Bengaluru, Nov 19: A 23-year-old woman and her nine-month-old baby girl died when the former accidentally stepped on a live electric wire lying unattended on the pavement near Hope Farm here early on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred at around 6 am when Soundarya and her child Suviksha were walking home after arriving from Tamil Nadu, sources said, adding that their luggage-trolley bag and other belongings were lying scattered at the scene.
According to police, both the mother and the child were electrocuted and died on the spot with burns. The woman’s husband Santosh Kumar tried to save his wife and child, but was helpless, official sources said. (PTI)
