A teen, who was working in a lathe after school hours due to poverty, got electrocuted on Wednesday night.
 Police said K. Gurumurthy, 15, a Class 9 student and son of manual labourer Karnamaharajan from Subramaniyapuram near Vilaathikulam in the district, was working in a lathe near Vilaathikulam Government Hospital after the end of the school hours.
 When he was closing the shop on Wednesday night, he accidentally touched a live wire and got electrocuted.
 Even though he was immediately rushed to the Vilaathikulam Government Hospital, the doctors there declared him ‘brought dead’.
 Vilaathikulam police have registered a case.
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