13-year-old electrocuted on train in Ruma in critical condition: She was urgently transported to KC Vojvodina

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A girl A.S., (13), who was struck by electricity yesterday when she got on a train car in Ruma, has been transferred from the General Hospital in Sremska Mitrovica to the University Clinical Center (KC) Vojvodina, Telegraf.rs has learned.

As Infrastructure of the Serbian Railways announced yesterday, the accident happened on the seventh track of the station. The ambulance and the police went to the scene of the accident as soon as possible.

According to the information collected so far, two girls aged around 13 were crossing the railway at an illegal place, over the track at the Ruma station. One of them started to climb onto the car, and then there was an electric shock.

She was transported to the hospital in Sremska Mitrovica in serious condition.

As Telegraf.rs was told at the General Hospital in Sremska Mitrovica, she was immediately diagnosed.

"She was diagnosed with a high degree of burns and she was immediately transferred to the University Clinical Center of Vojvodina, accompanied by an anesthesiologist, to the Emergency Pediatric Surgery," we were told by the Sremska Mitrovica hospital, where the girl was brought on Monday at around 7 pm.

(Telegraf.rs)