A contract labourer was electrocuted and another injured today after coming in contact with an overhead wire at Vasai Railway Station in Palghar district.<br />''<br />''According to officials, the incident took place at around 2.55 p.m., when three contract labourers were doing some welding work at north-end foot over-bridge on Platform Number 6-7 of Vasai station.<br />''<br />''The officials informed that the aluminium ladder, which the victims were holding slipped and rested on an overhead wire, causing one of them to get electrocuted and injuring the other. The injured labourers were rushed to the nearest hospital, where one of them was declared dead on admission.<br />''<br />''According to the Western Railway, it had shut the power from the overhead wire for some time to rescue the injured men, who were working for a contractor of the Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation. <br />