2 of a family electrocuted

A woman and her granddaughter were electrocuted in Amrakhali village of Benapole in Jashore on Wednesday, reports UNB.

The deceased are Aratan Begum, 50 and her granddaughter Masura Khatun, 16.

Police and locals said Aratan Begum got electrocuted when she was trying to hang her wet cloth on an electric wire at the kitchen of their house around 4:00pm.

Later, Masura got electrocuted when she went to rescue her grandmother.

They were rushed to a local hospital where physicians declared them dead.