Mahisagar: In a tragic incident, two students studying in Class 10 were electrocuted when a metal pole they were carrying for flag hoisting came in contact with a live wire at a school in Mahisagar district of Gujarat on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred at the government-run school where the flag hoisting ceremony was organised in the morning to celebrate Independence Day at Kenpur village in Santrampur taluka, police inspector M V Khant stated.

"Since the metal pole, which was supposed to be used to hoist the tricolour, was lying on the terrace of the school, the two teenaged students went upstairs to bring it to the ground. But when they lifted the pole, it accidentally touched a live wire hanging over the terrace," he said.