A 17-year-old teenage boy was electrocuted in Nageshwari upazila of Kurigram district on Saturday noon.
The deceased was identified as Ariful Islam Raju, son of Yakub Ali Mandal, a former UP member of Telianikuti village in the Bamandanga union.
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Abed Ali, a UP member of Bamandanga Union, said Raju went to unplug the connection of their electric irrigation pump near Muria High School next to his house. Suddenly, he got a massive electric shock. When the students came out of the classroom, they found him hanging with electric wire and informed his family members.
Later, he died on the way to the Upazila Health Complex.
Officer-in-Charge (Investigating) of Nageshwari Police Station Tasbirul Islam said that the body was handed over to the family without autopsy as there was no complaint.