At least four killed, three injured after electrocution at Ganesh pandal in Madhya Pradesh

Four youth were killed and three injured after they were electrocuted when sleeping in a Ganpati pandal in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandla district, police said on Saturday (September 26, 2026).

According to police, the incident took place around 5 a.m. on Saturday (September 26, 2026) in the Hirapur village with the Nainpur police station area, when eight men were sleeping in a pandal (tent) after returning from the immersion of the Ganesh idol.

Mandla Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh Raghuvanshi told The Hindu that, according to the survivors, there was a short circuit in the music amplifier, and a live wire from it touched a metal grill of a small temple where the pandal had been set up, causing seven people to receive electric shocks.