Greater than a dozen other folks had been additionally injured within the district of Thanjavur within the southern state of Tamil Nadu after the automobile, a 9-foot (2.7-meter) -high construction shaped within the type of a chariot and pulled via worshipers, hit the high-voltage strains.
“I am hoping the ones injured recuperate quickly,” Top Minister Narendra Modi mentioned on Twitter, as he introduced condolences to the bereaved.
One of the injured had been harm in falls following the electrical surprise, and others, who scrambled to flee the flames, once they jumped from the chariot, which carried statues of Hindu deities along with the devotees.
The chariot, which were wending its as far back as a close-by temple, used to be left a charred wreck.
Hearth engines and native officers joined the rescue effort.
