City Desk :
A man has been electrocuted to death after attempting to cycle across water that had accumulated at the Najira Bazar intersection in Dhaka’s Bangshal following heavy rain. The victim was identified as 30-year-old Md Amin, an employee at a local bakery.
The incident occurred around 9am. Locals were able to recover the body and take it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 9:45am. There, a doctor on duty declared him dead, according to Md Rafiqul Islam, chief of Bangshal Police Station.
Rafiqul said he was unable to confirm whether a power line had torn and fallen into the water, leading to the death.
Citing the passersby who brought Amin to the hospital, Inspector Md Faruk, officer-in-charge of the DMCH Police Camp, said: “The man was riding his bicycle along Kazi Alauddin Road in Najira Bazar. Water had accumulated on the road after the rain. As he was moving, he suddenly fell in the water with his cycle.
A few locals then pulled him out using bamboo sticks and brought him to the hospital. After he arrived, the doctor declared him dead.”
