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Tragic electrocution at Kerala school
A heartbreaking accident took place at Boys High School, Thevalakkara in Kerala's Kollam district on Thursday morning.
Mithun, a 13-year-old Class 8 student, was trying to get his slipper back from the roof of the school building when he touched a live electric wire and was fatally electrocuted.
Minister orders inquiry; police investigate possible negligence
Kerala's Education Minister V Sivankutty called the incident "extremely tragic" and has ordered an immediate inquiry into what went wrong.
Police are treating it as an accidental death due to electric shock and have started investigating possible negligence around electrical safety at the school.
Mithun's body has been sent for postmortem, and this incident is sparking fresh worries about how safe school campuses really are for students.