3 electrocuted in Keraniganj

By Staff Correspondent
26 September 2005, 18:00 PM
Three people, including a mother and her son, were electrocuted at Keraniganj in Dhaka district yesterday.

Rabeya Begum, 50, was electrocuted when she was hanging her soaked clothes on a metal wire after her bath in the morning. Somehow the wire was electrified.

Her son Atiqur Rahman,16, was also electrocuted when he came to rescue his mother.

At that time one Ferdous, 32, of nearby house, came to save them, but unfortunately he was burned by the electricity.

Ferdous was rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital while Rabeya and Atique at Mitford Hospital. Doctors declared them dead.

Abul Kashem, victim's husband, filed an unnatural death case with local police station in this regard.