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A man was electrocuted in the capital's Jatrabari area on Wednesday evening.
The deceased was identified as Mohammad Mosharraf (35), a mason and son of late Mozaffar Hossain of Naomala village in Baufal upazila of Patuakhali district.
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The incident occurred at around 6 pm on the fourth floor of a six-storey building owned by Al Mamun, a lawyer at West Jatrabari’s Shahid Farooq Smarani.
Locals rescued him and took him to the emergency unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital at 8 pm where the doctor on duty declared him dead.
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House owner Al Mamun suspected that he got up there to drain rainwater from the cornice and somehow got electrocuted.
His relatives were informed of the incident, he said.