{"id":25468,"date":"2026-07-17T19:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=25468"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:18:35","slug":"labourer-dies-after-electrocution-fall-while-installing-smart-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/labourer-dies-after-electrocution-fall-while-installing-smart-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"Labourer dies after electrocution, fall while installing smart meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Jul 17: An 18-year-old labourer died after accidentally coming into contact with a high-tension (HT) power line while installing a smart electricity meter in the Khimber-Zakura area of Srinagar on Friday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>An official told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the labourer sustained an electric shock after coming into contact with an HT line while installing a smart meter. He subsequently fell from the electric pole, suffering multiple injuries.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to hospital in an unconscious condition, where doctors declared him brought dead.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was later identified as Murtaza Khatana (18), son of Abdul Rasheed Khatana, a resident of Garkoot, Uri.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, police have taken cognisance of the incident and initiated further proceedings. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Jul 17: An 18-year-old labourer died after accidentally coming into contact with a high-tension (HT) power line while installing a smart electricity meter in the Khimber-Zakura area of Srinagar on Friday, officials said. An official told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the labourer sustained an electric shock after coming into contact with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25470,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468\/revisions\/25470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}