
Man electrocuted by illegal electric fence near Madurai, dies
The Hindu
The 37-year-old’s wife too, suffered an electric shock when she tried to help him, police said
A 37-year-old man, T. Krishnan, of T. Valayankulam, was electrocuted to death and his wife, K. Akkammal (31) was critically injured when they came in contact with live power supply, on touching an illegal electric fence put up by a farmer near Kalligudi on Wednesday.
The police said that the couple was going to their agricultural field, when they accidentally touched the fence of K. Kathirvel. Kathirvel had given power supply to the fence to keep wild boars, which damage the crops, away.
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