Six contract workers of railways working for installing electricity poles as part of electrification of tracks, were charred to death around noon on Monday as the poll they were trying to install slipped form their hands and touched the high voltage overhead wire running with 25,000 volt current near Jharkhor station on Dhanbad – Gaya grand chord section of Dhanbad Railway division.
All six died instantly on spot and a dozen more sustained burn injuries, confirmed Kamal Kishor Sinha DRM of Dhanbad Railway division, who reached on spot along with other railway officers after the incident.
