MP: Passenger electrocuted, another injured as bus touches high-tension electricity line

Maneri police post in-charge Pankaj Vishwakarma said the bus was carrying a marriage party and the incident took place when one of the passengers, identified as Bhura Barkade 20, climbed on top of the vehicle to remove a high tension wire using a piece of bamboo.The HT line came crashing onto the bus, electrocuting Barkade, while another passenger Ramnath Barkade 55, who tried to save the former, suffered burn injuries and has been hospitalised.

A passenger was electrocuted and another injured when a bus came in contact with an overhead high-tension electricity wire in Madhya Pradesh's Mandla district on Sunday afternoon, police said. Maneri police post in-charge Pankaj Vishwakarma said the bus was carrying a marriage party and the incident took place when one of the passengers, identified as Bhura Barkade (20), climbed on top of the vehicle to remove a high tension wire using a piece of bamboo.

''The HT line came crashing onto the bus, electrocuting Barkade, while another passenger Ramnath Barkade (55), who tried to save the former, suffered burn injuries and has been hospitalised. A probe is underway into the incident,'' he said.