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Kolkata: Two electrocuted at Alipore Zoo, another hospitalized in critical condition
Kolkata/IBNS: Two employees of a private outdoor advertising agency died of electrocution and another was seriously injured while installing billboard-pillars inside Kolkata's Alipore Zoological Garden on Thursday morning, reports said.
According to reports, at least 15 employees of the outdoor advertising agency were installing pillars of a billboard near the elephants' enclosure inside the zoo campus when three of them were electrocuted at around 11:30 am.
They were rushed to a private hospital in Ekbalpore area where two of them, who have been identified as Pradip Das Bhadra from Chingrighata and Tarani Ghosh from Murshidabad's Kandi, were pronounced dead.
Another man, Rintu Das from Bhadrak in Odisha, is currently undergoing treatment in a very critical condition at the hospital.
Local police have initiated an investigation into the accident, though neither police nor the zoological garden authority have commented so far on how these men were engaged in a non-essential activity inside a restricted government premise on a day when the entire state is observing a complete anti-Covid-19 lockdown.
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