Hyderabad: A Class IX student, who was flying a kite from the terrace of his house was electrocuted on Friday in the Musheerabad area. The mishap occurred when the deceased Kiran’s kite got stuck in electric wires. Police said that Sidda Bharthala Kiran, 15, was the eldest son of Shekar, a daily wager and Lakshmi, a housewife. He was studying at the New Madhu High School in Parsigutta. On Friday after lunch he and his friends went to the terrace of their house and started flying kites. Around 3.30 pm, his kite got stuck in the high tension lines passing above a nearby building. He rushed to the building, climbed on to the second floor and tried to free the kite.
“He stood on a water supply pipeline, took a 11 feet long iron pipe and started freeing the kite,” said Musheerabad SI B. Bhaskar Rao. He suffered an electric shock and died on the spot from the extensive he suffered. Based on a complaint from his mother, a suspicious death case was registered.
In a similar incident, a 10-year-old boy was electrocuted in Ramanthapur on Wednesday and a 11-year-old boy died in October 2015 in the Nagole area. Hyderabad police commissioner M. Mahender Reddy had issued orders under the City Police Act banning kite flying on all thoroughfares and on the premises of places of worship.
He had also made an appeal to parents to advise children not to fly kites from terraces which do not have parapet walls. “Parents should also ask children not to run on the road with kites or try to collect kites from trees and electric poles,” he had said in a release issued a few days ago.
