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Wednesday, Mar 08, 2006

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Two brothers electrocuted

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Two brothers, both labourers, got electrocuted while they were removing a college name board from a building at Bowenpally on Tuesday.

Hut-dwellers of local Bhagyalaxmi Colony, the daily-wage earners were engaged, along with three others, to renovate a four-storied building. Till recently, the second floor of the building accommodated an International College of Animation, Arts and Technology. The college management shifted the campus to another building. As part of the renovation, the building owner Kiran Kumar asked the labourers to remove the 8x3 feet box-type college name board from the second floor around 9 a.m. G. Ashok, 25, was pulling the board when it came in contact with the 11 kv electric lines outside.

"We are told that as Ashok sustained serious burns his brother G. Sahadevulu ran to rescue him but he too suffered shock," Bowenpally Sub-Inspector Mathew Koshi said. Another worker G. Srinivas too received wounds while trying to rescue them.

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