Three persons were electrocuted to decease and arsenic galore others suffered burns erstwhile a structure for spectators came successful interaction with a high-tension powerfulness enactment during a kabaddi lucifer successful Chhattisgarh's Kondagaon district, constabulary said connected Sunday (September 21, 2025).
The incidental took spot connected Saturday nighttime successful Ravaswahi colony nether Baderajpur improvement artifact erstwhile the kabaddi lucifer was underway, a constabulary authoritative said.
A abrupt tempest caused an 11-kV powerfulness enactment to interaction the robust rod of the structure erected connected the crushed for viewers to ticker the game, resulting successful respective of them receiving an electrical shock, helium said.
Local villagers rushed six affected persons to a infirmary successful Vishrampuri wherever 3 of them were declared dead. Two of the 3 injured were shifted to an precocious aesculapian centre successful presumption of their captious condition, the authoritative said.
The deceased person been identified arsenic Satish Netam, a subordinate who was besides among the spectators, Shyamlal Netam and Sunil Shori, residents of adjacent villages, helium said.
Further probe into the incidental is underway, helium added.
