72-year-old burnt alive; grandson critical after high tension electricity wire snapped in Loni

Ghaziabad: A 72-year-old man was burnt alive while his 20-year-old grandson suffered critical burns when a live 11kv electricity wire fell over the duo at Prem Nagar locality in Ghaziabad’s Loni on Wednesday afternoon. The police said that the young man suffered critical injuries during the incident and was rushed to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi.

The police said that the incident took place around 3.30pm when a transformer exploded and a live high-tension wire got snapped. The victims, Vijay Kant Jha and his grandson Raju Kumar, were standing near their shop while another person, identified as Anil Kumar, was also nearby.