The incident came about close to Gola village round 11 pm within the district on Tuesday. (Representational)
Betul, Madhya Pradesh:
A bus carrying polling officers and digital voting machines caught fireplace in Madhya Pradesh’s Betul district, inflicting harm to a couple EVMs, based on a senior official.
Nevertheless, no polling workers and the motive force of the bus suffered any harm within the incident, Betul Collector Narendra Suryavanshi instructed PTI over telephone.
The incident came about close to Gola village round 11 pm within the district on Tuesday, he mentioned.
The hearth came about due to a spark within the bus, however nobody suffered any accidents within the incident, the collector mentioned.
The hearth broken EVMs of 4 polling stations, together with sales space numbers 275, 276, 277, 278, 279 and 280, he mentioned.
The hearth tender doused the flames which had completely gutted the bus, he added.
Six polling events and as many EVMs had been there within the bus on the time of the incident, amongst which 4 EVMs acquired broken whereas two others are secure, Suryavanshi mentioned.
Within the 4 affected EVMs, both a management unit or a poll unit suffered damages within the fireplace, he mentioned.
Requested whether or not the incident would have an effect on the vote depend recorded within the EVMs, the collector mentioned that he’ll ship his report back to the Election Fee on the difficulty and the ballot physique will take a call relating to re-polling on the affected cubicles.
A complete of 72.65 per cent polling was recorded within the Betul Lok Sabha seat, a ballot official mentioned.
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