CHENNAI: A contract staff working under the Corporation’s smart city project was allegedly electrocuted while operating a drilling machine. He was said to be laying the pedestrian pavement near YMCA bus-stop at Royapettah on Monday night. Pounraj, 28, a native of Tiruvannamalai, was working with four other men at the YMCA bus stop.
“He was drilling the roads around 12.30 am as the other workers were laying the concrete slabs for the pavement. While doing so, the machine came in contact with a live underground cable and sent an electric shock,” said a police officer investigating the case. The other workers immediately rushed him to the government hospital nearby, where the doctors declared him brought dead. After an autopsy, his body was handed over to his mother on Tuesday afternoon.
