By IANS
Kolkata : Durga Puja festivities ended on a horrific note in a West Bengal town when a young girl was killed after she was sucked into a generator while trying to get a vantage position during idol immersion.
Krishna Santra, a Class 11 student, had come to visit her aunt in Diamond Harbour and joined a Durga Puja procession Sunday night, the last day of the five-day autumnal festival.
After reaching the immersion site, she tried to get a better view when her dupatta got pulled into a generator. While struggling to wrench out her dupatta, the turbine of the generator caught her hair.
“Within minutes, her skull was sucked into the generator. It was a macabre sight,” Arjun Mondal, an eyewitness, was quoted as saying by local newspapers.
Local residents rushed her to the Diamond Harbour Subdivisional Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries.