{"id":19721,"date":"2023-07-19T13:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/15-die-by-electrocution-after-transformer-explodes-in-northern-india\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T13:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T20:50:04","slug":"15-die-by-electrocution-after-transformer-explodes-in-northern-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/15-die-by-electrocution-after-transformer-explodes-in-northern-india\/","title":{"rendered":"15 die by electrocution after transformer explodes in northern India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NEW DELHI \u2014 Fifteen people including six policer officers died Wednesday by electrocution after a transformer exploded near a sewage treatment plant in northern\u00a0India, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Several other people were injured in the incident, which occurred on the banks of the Alaknanda river, and were sent to a hospital in Uttarakhand state\u2019s Chamoli district, police officer Parmendra Doval said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the explosion was not immediately known, and the state\u2019s chief minister, Pushkar Singh Dhami, ordered an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred as water levels in most rivers in northern\u00a0India\u00a0have risen due to record monsoon rains. Heavy floods have killed more than 100 people in the region in the past three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In April, 11 people were electrocuted when their truck touched an overhead power line during a Hindu festival procession in southern\u00a0India.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/ohs\/2023\/07\/15-die-by-electrocution-after-transformer-explodes-in-northern-india\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI \u2014 Fifteen people including six policer officers died Wednesday by electrocution after a transformer exploded near a sewage &#8230; <a title=\"15 die by electrocution after transformer explodes in northern India\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/15-die-by-electrocution-after-transformer-explodes-in-northern-india\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 15 die by electrocution after transformer explodes in northern India\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-19721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}