Three people electrocuted in Kishoreganj

Three people including a pair of cousins were electrocuted while three others sustained injuries in an accident at Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj on Friday, said police.

The deceased are Deb Lal, 15, his cousin Milon Lal, 30, of the upazila and Mobarak Hossain, 25, of Sunamganj. The injured are Abdullah, Sunny and Akash reports UNB.

Six of them were electrocuted while moving aside an electric pole from a road in Bhairab municipality in the noon, said Md Golam Mostafa, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bhairab police station.

Later, locals rushed them to Bhairab Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared three of them dead on arrival, said the OC.