Tragedy struck festive celebrations in central Mumbai on Sunday night when an eight-year-old girl was electrocuted after coming into contact with an uninsulated live electrical wire outside a prominent Ganesh festival pandal in Lalbaug. The young girl was visiting the temporary religious pavilion with her family when she stepped near an unshielded generator junction cable submerged in rain runoff.
Devotees and festival volunteers immediately pulled the unconscious child clear and rushed her to nearby KEM Hospital, but attending medical officers declared her dead on arrival due to high-voltage cardiac arrest. Mumbai Police registered an Accidental Death Report and launched an investigation against electrical contractors and festival committee organizers for gross criminal negligence.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation dispatched safety inspection squads to audit electrical cabling across all major public festival pavilions in South and Central Mumbai. Civic authorities issued strict compliance warnings, ordering event organizers to encase all temporary power lines in waterproof overhead conduit channels to prevent further hazards during monsoon rains.
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