Two electrocuted at Rajarhat, Sherpur

Two people were electrocuted in separate incidents in Rajarhat Upazila of Kurigram District and Sherpur Upazila of Bogura District in two days.

RAJARHAT, KURIGRAM: A 38-year-old worker, Faridul Islam, died on Thursday afternoon after an electrical wire became entangled with a power saw while he was cutting an auctioned tree in front of Chakirpashar Union Parishad in Rajarhat Upazila of the district.

The accident occurred at around 1:15 pm. Locals rescued Faridul, a resident of Paikpara Village in Sadar Union of the upazila and living at his father-in-law’s house at Mekur Tari Teli Para Village beside Rajarhat Bazar for long, were taking him to Rajarhat Hospital, but he died on the way.

Officer-in-Charge of Rajarhat Police Station said an unnatural death case will be filed after preparation of the inquest report.

SHERPUR, BOGURA: A young man named Md Zihad Hossain, 26, died of electrocution while connecting an electric motor in Sherpur Upazila of the district.

The accident occurred at his home in the Dahapara area of Khamarkandi Village in the upazila on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased, Zihad Hossain, was the only son of Md Tofazzal Hossain of that village. 

According to local sources, Zihad was electrocuted at noon while plugging in an electric motor to bathe cattle. Family members and locals rescued him and rushed him to the Sherpur Upazila Health Complex, where the on-duty physician, Adwitiya Dey, declared him dead.