Chennai: A 28-year-old woman and her six-month-old infant were electrocuted in their residence in Moolakothalam near Seven Wells on Monday when the woman touched a live wire in a table fan.
The deceased woman has been identified as S. Aruna. She was living with her husband, Siva, an autorickshaw driver and three children— Keerthana (5), Keerthini (3) and the six-month-old boy child at MS Nagar in Moolakothalam.
Police investigations revealed that the woman slept alone as she had to tend to the infant. Siva and the two girls were sleeping some distance away.
On Tuesday morning, the woman’s brother, Suryah returned home from work and found the woman lying unconscious. He alerted his brother-in-law and the woman and the child were moved to the Government Stanley Hospital where they were declared brought dead.
“She had come in contact with the wire from the table fan from which there was an electricity leak. The baby was hugging the mother and was electrocuted too,” a police officer said.
Seven Wells police registered a case and are investigating. The family was unaware that the woman and the child had been electrocuted until Tuesday morning, police said.
