NE NEWS SERVICE
THANJAVUR (TN), JAN 12
In a freak mishap, four passengers of a bus were electrocuted to death and three injured when they came into contact with a live wire after the vehicle brushed against a road-side electric pole in Thanjavur district on Tuesday, police said.
The mishap occurred when the private bus, coming here from Kallanai, was overtaking a lorry and hit the pole with the wires on its top touching the passengers in window seats, near Varagur village, they said.
Four people, including a woman, died on the spot, they said, adding the injured have been hospitalised. Further details are awaited.
