Thane, Nov 1 (PTI) A 21-year-old man was electrocuted near a water tank in a school on Friday in Thane's Raghunath Nagar locality, police said.

A Naupada police station official said Jayesh Ambre, a peon in the school, was working near the water tank when the incident took place at around 2:30pm.

An accidental death case was registered and further probe into the incident was underway, he added.

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