Two young boys are fighting for their lives after their fishing rods struck high voltage electric cables.
One of the teenagers jumped with his rod which touched a high voltage power line in the Russian town Chapayevsk. They are now in hospital after the horrific accident which happened after they returned home from an angling trip.
A loud bang and giant arc flash was caught on video which floored the two boys and their friend. One sustained 85 per cent body burns from the incident. Another was hit by 45 per cent burns. The third, named as Maksim B, was floored but then miraculously got up and ran uninjured from the scene.
The teenagers were seriously burned in the horrific flash (social media / East2west News)
The two seriously injured were named as Khalmat V and Danila T (social media / East2west News)The two boys in hospital were named as Khalmat V and Danila T. Their condition was described as "extremely serious". The teenagers, aged 14 and 15, were electrocuted as they returned from a fishing trip on the first day of their school summer holiday.
A witness said: "We thought at first they had been hit by a drone." The electric shock made a "fearful crack" and the boys were "screaming on the ground". The ambulance took a "long time" to come.
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Khalmat V one of the teenagers who were electrocuted (social media / East2west News)
Danila T was also hit by the terrifying power surge (social media / East2west News)Teachers, friends and classmates were raising money for the medical expenses of the two electrocuted boys, said reports. The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a probe into the incident. The boys were fishing in a tributary of the Volga River.
In another horrific incident last month, the Mirror reported on another electrocution incident in Brazil when a teacher and her six-year-old son both died after being electrocuted by a washing machine power lead.
(social media / East2west News)
(social media / East2west News)Diana Michelle Machado Santos da Silva, 30, and Pietro Vinicius Santos de Oliveira, six, were killed at their home in the Formosa neighbourhood, of Timon, a city in the Brazilian state of Maranhao, on April 20. It is believed that Diana noticed her son receiving an electric shock and ended up being electrocuted herself when she went to his aid.
Police said that both the teacher and her son died at the scene. Firefighters had rushed to the incident were they found the two victims and the bodies were sent to a local morgue with an investigation now underway to establish the exact causes and circumstances of their deaths.
Local police said that the boy was electrocuted after touching an iron railing that was in contact with a loose live cable from the washing machine and then Diana also came in contact with the current when she tried help him. A police spokesperson said: "The extension cord came into contact with an iron railing in the house, which was electrified by a bare wire. The child touched the railing and was shocked."
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