Mapusa: In a tragic incident, a teenager was killed due to electric shock while erecting the mandap for the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at his residence in Pomburpa late Saturday night.
The deceased, Yashmit Chari (17), a class XI student was erecting the mandap and carrying out decorations for the ensuing Ganesh festival when he came in contact with a live electric wire and got electrocuted.
He was rushed to the Aldona Primary Health Centre where the doctor on duty proclaimed him “brought dead”.
Mapua Police has registered a case of unnatural death and conducte the panchanama. His body was later shifted to the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim and after post-mortem handed over to the family members.
The last rites of the teenager were conducted on Sunday evening in the village crematorium.
A pall of gloom descended on the village following the death of the youth on the eve of the festival.
He has a younger brother. His father works in a saw mill while the mother is a homemaker.
This news is reported by The Goan. To read more GOA news visit The Goan.
