On what began as an ordinary morning in Chennai’s Arumbakkam, 24-year-old Kannan Thamizhselvan was on his way to work when he noticed something terrifying: a child had collapsed into a pool of water on the road and wasn’t moving.

The road was flooded from the previous night’s rain, and it didn’t take Kannan long to realise what had happened. The water was live with electricity from an underground cable leak — and the child was being electrocuted.

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In that crucial moment, Kannan didn’t wait........

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