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Daijiworld News Network –Mangalore
Mangalore, May 13: A MESCOM employee was electrocuted while on work at Vamanjoor near here on Saturday May 12. The deceased has been identified as Gerald Veigas (35), son of Thomas Veigas, a resident of Thokur Village. He is survived by his wife and two children.
Gerald who was on duty on Saturday was checking for faults in Vamanjoor area as there was no power from 2.30 pm. He fixed two poles and while he was fixing the third pole, electricity suddenly passed through the wire and he got electrocuted, where he died on the spot.
MESCOM officials say that generator connection in any house either switched on manually or automatically tends electricity to pass through the high tension wire which might be the reason for death.