A construction worker in the city's Bhasantek area was electrocuted to death on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Md Maruf, 25, a resident of Chunia Kandi village in Gaibandha Sadar upazila.
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The incident occurred around noon when Maruf went to connect an electrical line in the first floor of a multi-storied building he was working at under a developer company, said his co-worker Md Aftab.
Maruf’s co-workers rescued him in an unconscious condition and rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the duty doctors announced him dead, said Bacchu Mia, in-charge Inspector of DMCH police outpost.
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The body was sent for an autopsy, he said.