A 32-year-old labourer died after allegedly receiving an electric shock while installing a transformer in Maharashtra’s Beed district, police said. The incident took place on Majalgaon’s bypass road, where workers had climbed a pole after being told that a shutdown had been taken. The victim, identified as Sheikh Avez Pasha Deshmukh, was working on a double-pole distribution transformer when power was suddenly restored at around 1 pm. He was struck by a high-voltage current and fell unconscious. He died at the spot.