Hyderabad, June 18 -- Hundreds of students attending the Government Primary School at Bazaar-e-Ghansi in Moosa Bowli are reportedly exposed to the risk of electrocution following the installation of an electrical transformer directly in front of the school's main entrance.

School authorities have expressed serious concern about the transformer, which was allegedly installed as part of renovation work on a commercial building opposite the school. According to Ayesha Sultana, the school principal, a cloth merchant undertaking the renovation installed a pillar and mounted an electrical transformer on it near the school gate.

"A few hundred children study in this school. Placing an electrical transformer at the entrance creates a potential ...