Outrage after electrocution of 2 kids, street light inspection starts
Kolkata: Public anger boiled over in Dum Dum’s Bandhabnagar over the civic apathy that led to the loss of two young lives the previous evening. Two Class VI students — Sreya Banik (12) and Anushka Nandy (13) — died of electrocution on Wednesday afternoon when they accidentally touched live wires sticking out of a decorative street light.
In Kolkata, an eerily similar incident had occurred five years ago when a 14-year-old student had also died on Ramesh Mitra Road after touching a decorative trident lamp post whose junction box was open as well.
The bereaved families in Dum Dum said accidents were waiting to happen with wires jutting out from open junction boxes in a number of municipal street lights in the belt.
