Bengaluru: A 19-year-old student was electrocuted when the fibre stick he used to pluck tender coconuts accidentally touched a live wire on his family’s agricultural land at Kunaghatta in Gubbi, Tumakuru district, Tuesday. The victim is K Preetam, who completed PU from a Tumakuru college. His father, Shivaramaiah, a farmer, told police Preetam fixed a sickle to the fibre stick to pluck the coconuts. “Unfortunately, the stick shook as Preetam raised it and touched the wire,” Shivaramaiah said in his complaint.
