{"id":303044,"date":"2018-09-21T06:24:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303044"},"modified":"2018-09-21T06:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:24:15","slug":"assam-six-fishermen-electrocuted-in-nagaon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/assam-six-fishermen-electrocuted-in-nagaon\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam: Six fishermen electrocuted in Nagaon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/assam-six-fishermen-electrocuted-in-nagaon\/current\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303045\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-303045 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/current-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/current-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/current-430x420.jpg 430w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/current.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a>At least six fishermen were electrocuted and several injured on Friday after a live electric wire touched the water of a pond in Nagaon district of Assam, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, fishermen went to the pond for fishing when a 11,000-Volt electrical wire, hanging loose over the pond, touched the water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Villagers, around 5 am had informed the electricity department about the loose wire but they were told that the wire was dead, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The locals came to the rescue of the injured fishermen and rushed them to the civil hospital in Nagaon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, irate villagers attacked the house of the electricity department official and also vandalized his car, official said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six fishermen were electrocuted and several injured on Friday after a live electric wire touched the water of a pond in Nagaon district of Assam, police said. According to the sources, fishermen went to the pond for fishing when a 11,000-Volt electrical wire, hanging loose over the pond, touched the water. Villagers, around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2459,2030,2014],"tags":[1758,5171,4706,5170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303047,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303044\/revisions\/303047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}