Navi Mumbai: A 32-year-old Adivasi from Mangaon Taluka in Raigad district, died after a rifle that fell from his hand, accidentally shot him on his private area.
The deceased identified as Madhukar Sakharam Waghmare, a resident of Panose Adivasi Vadi, had climbed a tree on Saturday morning in a jungle of Kavlicha Maal, around 500 metre away from Panose Adivasi Vadi.
“He had climbed with a rifle meant for hunting. After sometime while was coming down, the rifle fell from his hand and the fire was accidentally shot that hot hi on his private area,” assistant police inspector Nivrutti Borhade said.
After he fell, he called his relative on phone and the relatives immediately reached the spot. He told them what had happened the relatives then took him to hospital. However, he was declared dead on arrival. “He died on his way to hospital. The postmortem revealed that the shot that hit him from down had travelled till his chest,” Borhade added.
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Waghmare is survived by a wife and two kids and he did odd jobs for survival. Police registered a case against Waghmare for endangering lives of others and causing death by negligence along with Arms Act for possession fire arm illegally.
