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Hyderabad: A principal of a college in Hyderabad was electrocuted in Ghatkesar on Sunday, September 1, while trying to move an obstacle from the road amid rains.
The deceased was identified as 50-year-old Srinivas Rao, who was the principal of Vignan college. The incident occurred when Rao while walking on the campus, noticed a puddle of water and tried to remove plastic from it using an iron rod. He collapsed and died on the spot.
A teacher noticed him lying on the ground and immediately switched off the power supply. Rao was shifted to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. The Ghatkesar police registered a case and shifted the body for postmortem examination to Gandhi Hospital.
Rao, is a native of Khammam district and stayed at the campus hostel of the Hyderabad college.
The police suspect that a power cable snapped and fell on the ground due to which Srinivas got electrocuted while clearing the obstacles near the manhole.
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