Woman dies of electrocution | Daily News

Woman dies of electrocution

A mother of two children died of electrocution while she was feeding chickens in a coop, Pitigala Police said.

The deceased had been identified as a 32-year-old resident of Kiridolapara in Pitigala. She was running a chicken coop. which had been installed with live wires to protect the chickens. On the day, the woman had entered the coop without disconnecting the power supply. While she was providing water to the animals, a live wire had got stuck with one of her legs, Police said.

The post mortem was to be held at the Elpitiya Hospital yesterday.


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