Chamoli: Fifteen electrocuted to death near India river

The accident took place after an electricity transformer exploded near the Alaknanda river in Uttarakhand.

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Electrocution is fatal, electrified is non fatal.
- Killed... To death!
- Some sources including Wikipedia define electrocution as “death or serious injury caused by electric shock.” However “electrify” is rarely if ever used to describe any sort of electric shock. It’s more used to describe a line or material that has electric voltage and/or current running through it.
  
  Correct, some sources do say that, in BrE we say electric shock, perhaps in AmE electrocution is a generic term, but that's bizzare, the word is a amalgamation of electricity and execution, since when is execution non lethal? In french we use électrisé and electrocutes to make the distinction.

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