In a video, now viral on social media, a man was seen electrocuted when the long bamboo stick he was walking with touched an overhead high-voltage electricity wire passing over his relative’s house in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba on Tuesday afternoon.

In the video, the deceased identified as 35-year-old Devendra, a resident of Chandon village, can be seen walking inside the house in the presence of his relatives carrying the bamboo stick when it touched the high voltage wire. Devendra fell with a strong jolt, his head hit the iron gate, and he died within seconds as his family members rushed to assist him.