A tenth-grader was electrocuted in Sylhet city Friday.
The deceased Shahirul Haque Chowdhury, 15, was from the Ghurni residential area.
The schoolboy's family members said he came in contact with a live electric wire while changing an IPS line, after which they found him unconscious.
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Shahirul was declared dead after being rushed to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, Airport Police Station (Sylhet metropolitan) Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mainul Zakir told UNB.