Two fans of Tollywood star Suriya electrocuted to death while hanging actor’s birthday banner
TWO fans of Tollywood star Suriya were electrocuted to death while installing the actor's birthday banner.
Nakka Venkatesh and Poluri Sai died immediately after the banner's iron rod came into contact with an overhead electric wire.
The incident took place in Palnadu on Sunday, the same day as Suriya's 48th birthday.
Cops confirmed that that both victims were second year students of a private degree college in Narasaraopet, India.
Their bodies were sent for postmortem at Narasaraopet Government Hospital.
Poluri Sai's sister, Ananya, blamed the college for her brother's death, reported.
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She raised concerns about safety measures of doing such activities.
She said: "The college is responsible for my brother's death.
"We are paying lot fees to the college.
"Before joining, they assured us that students would be secured and monitored.
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"We are daily labours. We struggle a lot to pay college fees, striving for a good life for my brother. It's an awful incident that happened."
A first glimpse of Suriya's upcoming film Kanguva, said to be a “mighty valiant saga”, was shared on his birthday.
Also featuring Disha Patani, the film was directed by Siva and backed by UV Creations and Studio Green.
Studio Green tweeted: “The fearless man. The wild life. The powerful story. Get ready to witness it all... The King is here.”
The preview was released in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and English and will be out in four other languages.
Suriya has also starred in Telugu films including Thaanaa Serndha Koottam and NGK.
