Muzaffarnagar (UP), Mar 2 (PTI) Three children were injured after coming in contact with an electric pole in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Wednesday.

The incident took place in Mahalki village on Tuesday when the children were playing near the pole, they said.

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The injured children -- Prempal (8), Yashvardhan (7) and Tarun (9) -- were taken to hospital, where one of them is serious, they said.

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