Student electrocuted while hanging Brazil flag in Kushtia

A 14-year-old madrasah boy was electrocuted while trying to tie the Brazil flag to a tree near his house on Tuesday, reports UNB.

"The accident occurred in Pitambar Bashi village of Panti Union in the Kumarkhali upazila in the district.

"Mithu Sheikh, son of Shahid Sheikh in the area," Md Mohsin Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kumarkhali police station, said.

Mithu was a student of class nine of Dansa Mahur Ali Dakhil Madrasa.

Mithu climbed the tree to hang the Brazilian flag on the top of the betel nut tree around 1.20pm. At one point he got electrocuted and fell from the tree. Locals rescued him and took him to Kushtia General Hospital where doctors declared him dead, added the OC.