I have a question maybe someone can answer re: electric shock

In this tragic story below about two brothers who were electrocuted in Texas, the article says the boy stepped in a puddle near down power lines. I've read other news stories about people who were electrocuted after stepping into electrified water.

But I've read other places that you can't get electrocuted standing in water unless you are touching something metal or an electric appliance - that the touching the metal will make the electricity pass thru you because now you complete the circuit. Contact with the water alone is not enough to make the the current enter your body.


https://www.dallasnews.com/news/fort-worth/2017/03/29/2-electrocuted-downed-power-lines-fort-worth-park