SRINAGAR: An elderly man died after receiving an electric shock at his home in the Trich area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials said on Saturday.
They said 75-year-old Ghulam Qadir Bhat, son of Mohammad Abdullah Bhat and a resident of Trich, Pulwama, was shocked while handling an electric motor during domestic work.
He was brought to District Hospital Pulwama in an unconscious state and later succumbed to his injuries.
The body of the deceased is at District Hospital Pulwama for medico-legal formalities.
