India: children dying from other than stray dogs

[Guest guest]

I am not saying that showing other children dying of other causes is a PR

strategy at all for the recent 7-8 month old baby being killed by stray dogs but

just between all of us, isn't is interesting that the stray dog death story

appeared on the front headline as national news for the Deccan " Boy dies after

Dog Attack: 29 March, and below one for electrocution appeared inside as city

news for Hyderabad. For anyone who missed Azam's post about the 7-8 month old

baby death, the link was

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070007132

 

So how many children are dying from electric shock, if one is counting, the toll

might be just about even with stray dogs currently and should be just as

" shocking " , this is not an isolated incident. So where is the public outcry to

clean up the electricity, etc.?

 

http://www.deccan.com/City/CityNews.asp#3-year-old%20boy%20dies%20of%20electrocu\

tion

3-year-old boy dies of electrocution Hyderabad, March 28: A three-year-old boy

was electrocuted in Begumpet on Tuesday.

Yuvaraju, son of Raja Ba-hadur of Motilal Nagar, reportedly fell on an electric

pole while playing with other children of the locality. As Yuvaraju fell

unconscious, the other children carried him to his home and his mother Urmila

rushed him to a private hospital where he was declared dead. The body was sent

to Gandhi Hospital for post-mortem. Police, who suspect that the boy died of

electric shock, are awaiting the post-mortem report to confirm the cause of

death.