The New Indian Express ·
Student tries to tie banner on streetlight, gets electrocuted
CHENNAI: An 18-year-old BSc student, who had taken up a part-time work of putting up banners to support his education, died of electrocution while fixing a banner onto a streetlight near Kotturpuram on Saturday.
The deceased, Jayachandran of Tiruvannamalai, was a student at Government Arts College, Nandanam.
Around 2 am on Saturday, Jayachandran and his friend Yuvaraj went to Kotturpuram to put up an advertisement. He climbed onto the median to tie the banner to a streetlight when he allegedly came in contact with a live electrical wire, suffered a shock and fell unconscious. Yuvaraj and passersby rushed him to a hospital, where the doctors declared him dead.
