Staff Reporter :
Three members of a family including a minor died of electrocution at their Islambagh house of Lalbagh area in the capital on Monday.
The victims were identified as Sharmin Begum, 30, her daughter Arfin, 5, and mother-in-law, Amena Begum, 55. The trio came in contact with a snapped electric cable on the first floor of a tin-shed house in Islambagh area, after a transformer blast in the morning, witnesses said.
Physicians at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) pronounced them dead on arrival around 11:30am after the victims were taken there, said Sub-Inspector (SI) Bacchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH police out-post.
Three members of a family including a minor died of electrocution at their Islambagh house of Lalbagh area in the capital on Monday.
The victims were identified as Sharmin Begum, 30, her daughter Arfin, 5, and mother-in-law, Amena Begum, 55. The trio came in contact with a snapped electric cable on the first floor of a tin-shed house in Islambagh area, after a transformer blast in the morning, witnesses said.
Physicians at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) pronounced them dead on arrival around 11:30am after the victims were taken there, said Sub-Inspector (SI) Bacchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH police out-post.
