Daijiworld Media Network – Kasargod (SP)
Kasargod, Apr 28: Because of sudden resumption of high voltage power supply, five persons from the town including three children suffered injuries in the early hours of Sunday April 27. The incident occurred in a house belonging to Gafoor from Maiyilpara Majal in Chowki here.
Sometime during the night, power supply had been severed. When power supply resumed on Sunday morning, television, refrigerator, and other electrical and electronic equipments suddenly exploded on account of excessive voltage. Electrical wiring of the house also was burnt as a result. Five persons, Gafoor’s wife, Zubaida (38), and her children, Jamsheena (20) and Fatimmat Shafa (16), children of Zubaida’s sister, Rufina (8) and Mufeeda (7), who were sleeping on the floor, were injured as a result. Out of them, Fufeeda, Rufina, and Shafa, whose condition was serious, were admitted into a hospital in Mangalore after providing first aid in a hospital here.
Rufina and Mufeeda had come to Zubaida’s house to spend summer holidays. It is learnt that a number of floor tiles of the house too exploded, and the family suffered huge loss in this incident.