Man electrocuted at Pokhran Railway Station in Rajasthan

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.

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.