Wanted "incendiary" content: four more teenagers suffered burns on the roofs of wagons
Kyiv • UNN
Four teenagers in Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi and Volyn regions received serious burns due to attempts to shoot videos on railway cars. The contact network has a voltage of over 27 thousand volts.
Four more teenagers aged 14-15 received 60-80% burns to their bodies as a result of attempts to shoot dangerous content for social networks on the roofs of trains, UNN reports with reference to Ukrzaliznytsia.
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The first tragic incident occurred on May 9 in the Kyiv region. A girl born in 2010 climbed onto the roof of a grain carrier that was standing at Bucha station. The consequences are electric shock, more than 80% of body burns.
A similar incident occurred at Khmelnytskyi station: two minors born in 2010 and 2011 climbed onto the roof of a utility train car. Both were electrocuted, receiving 60% and 5% burns to their bodies, respectively.
A few weeks earlier, a teenager in Volyn also climbed onto a railway tank and suffered burns from electric shock under similar circumstances.
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UZ reminded that the railway contact network has a voltage of over 27 thousand volts. If a person approaches it closer than 1-1.5 m, an electric arc occurs, which breaks through the air and affects the body. The temperature at the point of impact reaches 15 thousand degrees, as in the center of a lightning strike. This leads to ignition of clothing and body, severe burns, or even instant death.