Tirumala: A mother and her one and half year old baby boy were electrocuted to death near the TBC queue lines at Tirumala on Monday. According to information, a pilgrim group of six persons hailing from Tiruvallur in Tamil Nadu was on a pilgrimage to Tirumala and was heading for the darshan of Lord Venkateswara on Monday evening.
A woman in the group walking towards the queue lines along with her little son came across a 440 volts junction box and an earth line nearby not visible with water stagnated due to heavy rains.
Both mother and son were electrocuted on the spot as she stepped on the ‘earth line’ wires. Though the two were immediately rushed to the TTD run Aswini hospital at Tirumala, they were declared as brought dead by the doctors at the hospital.
The deceased have been identified as G. Lakshmi (35) and G. Mahesh (1.5 yrs). Lakshmi’s husband and other relatives were inconsolable with the tragic death of the mother and the child.
