Three, including a couple, electrocuted as power cable falls on them in Cuddalore district

Three persons, including a couple, were electrocuted erstwhile a high- hostility powerfulness cablegram snapped and fell connected them at Sathamangalam  near Keerapalayam in Cuddalore district connected Sunday.

The constabulary gave the names of the deceased as Mariam Susai, 70, his wife Felos Mary, 60, and their relative Vanathas Mary, 70.

The constabulary said that owing to dense rainfall and beardown winds, a tamarind histrion uprooted and fell connected an overhead powerfulness cable, which snapped and fell successful crook connected the 3 sitting successful beforehand of their location at Sathamangalam. They died connected the spot. The bodies were sent to the Chidambaram Government Hospital for post-mortem.

A lawsuit has been registered.