A 27-year-old man was on Friday electrocuted on touching a container truck that had caught fire after an overhead electric line snapped and fell on it.
A senior official of the Avadi Police Commissionerate said the truck driven by Avinash Singh was heading to a manufacturing company in the Pattaravakkam Industrial Estate near Ambattur on Friday morning. While travelling along Pattravakkam Road, the vehicle hit an overhead electric wire, which snapped and fell on its front portion, causing a fire. Avinash Singh escaped by jumping out of the driver’s cabin.
A pedestrian — identified as Deepak Kumar, a migrant worker from Bihar — who was behind the truck, came into contact with it and was electrocuted.
Front portion damaged
The front portion of the truck was completely damaged in the fire.
