New Delhi, March 21 -- A 45-year-old labourer died of electrocution and a 32-year-old mason was injured after they sustained a high-voltage electric shock when a bamboo stick they were handling came into contact with a high-tension power line on Thursday.

The accident occurred while the two were engaged in construction work at a multi-storey building in southwest Delhi's Kapashera on Thursday afternoon, police said.

A case under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita is being registered at Kapashera police station, police said.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (southwest) Amit Goel said that around 2.30pm, Kapashera police station received information about the incident. A police team reached the spot and learnt that two people ...