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Childhood in peril: Mourning families blame authorities
The Morning Standard
|August 12, 2024
"I need my son back, I can't live without him.
" Anita Devi, mother of a 13-year-old boy who died by electrocution in Ranhola, was inconsolable.
"My elder son kept screaming for help, but none came to help.' Her words trail off, making way for a fit of sobs.
" Mourning the loss of her son, she accused the power company and the 'Gaushala' for his death.
Her son, a student of Class 7 in a government school, went to play cricket with his friends on Saturday, the despairing mother said, adding that many children went to the ground to play and this can happen to anyone.
"We were playing bat-ball. My brother went to collect the ball and suddenly got stuck to an iron pole. I screamed for help, but none came," the brother of the deceased said, weeping as he recalled the tragedy.
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