Dog dies after being electrocuted by wire on Lower East Side

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The 11-year-old dog was shocked by stray voltage on Clinton St. between Delancey St. and Rivington St.

A small dog was electrocuted just steps from her Lower East Side apartment building Saturday night, officials said.

Bella, an 11-year-old pit bull terrier mix, was about to go inside her apartment on Clinton St. near Delancey St. with her 46-year-old owner in tow at about 4:30 p.m. when she apparently got shocked by a wire, according to officials.

“We were entering the building when Bella started acting funny,” said the dog’s owner, who asked not to be named. “She let out a cry. She didn’t seem to want to go into the building. Then she went into a spasm and just laid there.”

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A passer-by's efforts to revive Bella the dog failed.

A good Samaritan took the 50-pound pooch to the A&S Clinton Grocery and Smoke Shop and tried to revive her.

“Nothing was working,” said employee Shah Ahmed, 28. “The lady who owned the dog was crying a lot.”

Bella’s owner ultimately rushed her pet to an animal hospital on the Upper East Side. But by then it was too late.

Peter Gerber/for New York Daily News

Con Edison say the dog's death was a result of some frayed wiring from a scaffold light.

“The doctor said, ‘She’s gone,’” she said. “She was fine until I got her into the building.”

“It was just horrible,” the woman’s 49-year-old sister told The News. “(Bella) was electrocuted right in front of her.”

The Fire Department shut the power off to the building as Con Edison investigated. Frayed wiring from a scaffold light was to blame, according to a utility spokesman.

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