AFS staff electrocuted
The Hindu
A 39-year-old Military Engineering Services employee was electrocuted at Air Force Station, Begumpet, here on Saturday night. The victim, Mandavalli Kiran Kumar, an electrician a resident of New Bowen
A 39-year-old Military Engineering Services employee was electrocuted at Air Force Station, Begumpet, here on Saturday night. The victim, Mandavalli Kiran Kumar, an electrician a resident of New Bowenpally, went to the AFS to check the electricity supply in one of the units as it got shut down. “Without turning off the substation transformer, he with the help of his assistant Durgesh climbed the pole. “Suddenly, the power supply resumed and he was electrocuted,” Bownepally Sub-Inspector Sudhakar Reddy said.The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.