Mother, son electrocuted

A woman and her son died of electrocution at Keua Bakultala in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur district on Thursday.

The deceased are Selina Akter, 35, wife of a certain Anwar Hossain and her son Selim Hossain, 15, driver of a battery-run auto-rickshaw, reports UNB.

Selim came in contact with a live electric wire while charging his battery-run auto-rickshaw at his house in the morning and electrocuted. Selina also electrocuted while trying to save her son.

Later, they were taken to Sreepur upazila health complex where the doctors declared both of them dead, said Abu Raihan, a physician of the hospital.