Maharashtra: Woman Dies After Being Electrocuted While Fetching Water From Tank In Thane

A 41-year-old woman has died of electrocution while drawing water from a tank in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon at Sabe village in Diva area.

The woman was drawing water from a storage tank of a chawl (row tenements) where she resided and received a severe electric shock and collapsed, an official from the Mumbra district police station said. Some persons rushed her to a civic hospital in Kalwa where doctors declared her dead. The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem, the police said, adding that a case of accidental death has been registered as of now.

When contacted, a spokesperson of a private company supplying power to the area claimed there was possibly a fault in the water pump connection that the woman was using. Due to scarcity, many people have been using pumps to fetch water and they do not follow the safety regulations, the official said.

This incident comes after three migrant labourers, all aged 19, died of electrocution while working on a water tank in the Thane district in April. The incident took place around 11 am at Jambul village near Ambernath. The labourers got an electric shock due to faulty wiring of a pump in a water tank. They were rushed to a hospital where doctors declared the trio dead.

The three victims were identified as Shaligram Mandal, Rajankumar Mandal and Gulshankumar Mandal who hailed from Bihar's Bhagalpur district. An accident death case was also registered for them and their bodies were sent to a government hospital for post-mortem, as stated by an official from the Kalyan taluka police station.