Injured children admitted to hospital
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Hundreds of children had a narrow escape in a government school in Khagaria district. Where electric current spread in the school on Saturday. However, eight children of this school were slightly injured due to electric shock, who have been admitted to the local hospital for treatment. According to the information, after a transformer near the school caught fire, electric current spread in the entire school building. Due to this this incident happened. This incident is being reported from Madhya Vidyalaya Katghara of Gogri block of the district.
In this regard, the police station in-charge Gogri said that eight children were injured due to electric current in the school building, who were treated in the referral hospital. He said that it is being said that electric current spread in the school building after a fire broke out in the electricity connection near the school.
Current spread to the hand pump and the windows of the building
Regarding the incident, local people say that current had spread in the wall of the school building, the hand pump of the building, the window and the gate of the building. People told that a fire had broken out near an electric transformer at some distance from the school building. After that, current spread in the school building. People said that the electricity department was called several times in this regard, but action was taken late. By the time the department people arrived, 112 police team and local villagers had already reached, due to which a major incident was averted.
More than two hundred children study in the school
It is noteworthy that more than two hundred children are enrolled in Madhya Vidyalaya Katghara. People say that if a big incident had happened, hundreds of children would have lost their lives. People told that at the time when the incident happened, the acting headmaster of the school Mohammad Irfan was not present in the school. It is being told that after the incident, the teachers of the school and the officials of the education department tried their best to suppress this matter. But late Saturday evening the incident went viral on social media.
DEO and school incharge did not pick up the phone
An attempt was made to talk to the school’s headmaster Mohammad Irfan over the phone regarding this incident. Even after calling several times, the phone was not received. At the same time, a call was also made to the Khagaria District Education Officer for information in this regard. His phone was received by someone else.
