Jaisalmer: In a tragic incident, two young cousins, a three-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl, were electrocuted in Mangolai village of Pokhran in Jaisalmer district Friday morning. The children were playing outside their maternal grandparents’ home when they came in contact with an exposed wire, police said.Both children sustained severe burn injuries as a result. Family members rushed them to the Pokhran sub-district hospital, where doctors declared them dead.They were identified as Farukh, son of Kelawa resident Shakur Khan, and Israna, daughter of Badli resident Ramju Khan.According to police, the two children had come separately to visit their maternal grandparents on Oct 14. They were playing unsupervised in an open area at their grandparents’ house Friday morning when they happened to touch an exposed live wire connected to the household’s water pump.Family members immediately unplugged the pump, but not before both children had been fatally shocked.Villagers said Farukh’s mother was away in Jodhpur visiting relatives at the time of the accident. News of the deaths of the two young children plunged their families into grief.
