In Chirchiq, two students were electrocuted after climbing onto a freight car.
Children have been hospitalized with severe burn injuries.
In the city of Chirchiq, Tashkent region, two underage school students who climbed onto a freight car suffered severe injuries from an electric shock. This was reported in the "Millar" program here.
According to the report, on April 27, students born in 2011 and 2014, who climbed onto freight cars stopped on the Nurhayot—Qodiriya route of the Chirchiq railway station, were exposed to high-voltage electric current.
After the incident, the victims were immediately taken by emergency medical services to the Republican Scientific Center for Emergency Medical Care No. 16 in Tashkent and admitted to the intensive care unit.
According to the medical report, they were diagnosed with second and third-degree burn injuries covering 25–30% of their body surface. Currently, the patients' condition is assessed as moderate, and necessary treatments are ongoing.
Regarding this incident, pre-investigation checks are being conducted by the Tashkent Regional Railway Transport Safety Department.
Previously, it was reported that a 17-year-old teenager in Chirchiq was hospitalized in serious condition after being electrocuted on top of a train car. In that incident, approximately 80–85% of the young man's body was burned.
