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A three-member committee has been formed to analyse an electrocution incidental adjacent a Durga pandal which claimed the lives of 2 children successful Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district, officials said connected Thursday (September 25, 2025).
The 2 children, aged 8 and 10, died aft they suffered an electrical daze adjacent the pandal successful the Bargi Hills country connected Wednesday (September 24), they said.
The incidental occurred owed to lighting decorations installed by the organisers extracurricular the pandal without a due energy connection. As a result, the existent dispersed done a pole, which the children came into interaction with, starring to their deaths, Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Gorakhpur, Anurag Singh, told PTI Videos connected Wednesday (September 24).
A preliminary probe suggested that portion the organisers had taken a due energy transportation for the pandal itself, they had not done truthful for the outer decorations, helium said.
On the directives of Madhya Pradesh PWD Minister, Rakesh Singh, Jabalpur Collector Raghavendra Singh has formed a three-member squad led by the SDM to analyse the incident, an authoritative said.
The collector has directed the squad to analyse the causes of the incident, probe each imaginable angles, and taxable a study wrong 3 days, the authoritative said.
The PWD curate connected Wednesday (September 24) expressed grief implicit the incidental and directed the territory collector to supply ₹2 lakh assistance each done Red Cross to the kin of the 2 victims.
