Man electrocuted at Pokhran Railway Station in Rajasthan

Jaisalmer, Apr 10 (PTI) A man was charred to death after he touched a high-tension electricity cable when he went on top of a railway coach to sleep.

The incident took place on Tuesday night at the Pokhran Railway Station in the Jaisalmer district. Police said the victim, identified as Jagdish, worked with a firm engaged in electrification work at the railway station.

He was electrocuted when he climbed atop a train coach stationed at the yard tracks to sleep but inadvertently touched the high-tension live wire passing above it, the police said. The charred body was shifted to a government hospital’s mortuary in Pokhran for postmortem.