MUMBAI: The tragedy at the New Delhi railway station complex, where a 34-year-old woman died of electrocution after accidentally touching a live wire following heavy rainfall, comes as a reminder of this age-old monsoon risk in Mumbai and its outskirts.
In this rain-lashed region, the lives of ordinary citizens are constantly endangered due to exposed wires, inadequate maintenance of electric lines, distribution point (DP) panels, and poles. Earlier in the month, a six-year-old girl, Tehreen Iftekhar, was electrocuted in Santacruz (East), and two other children injured, because of accidental contact with an iron framework connected to an exposed live wire from a streetlight pole.
