Two college teachers and a son of one of them have drowned after electrocution during an Eid-ul-Azha boat ride in the backswamp of Chalan Beel in Pabna's Chatmohar.
Published : 03 Sep 2017, 10:24 PM
The incident occurred at a place between Saikola and Handial on Sunday afternoon, a day after the Eid, Chatmohar Police Station OC Shariful Islam said.
The victims are Tegharia College lecturers Abjal Hossain, 40, and Anwar Hossain, 45, and Anwar's son 'Sohan', 11.
OC Shariful said the three were in a team of eight to 10 Eid holidaymakers who went to hang out in Saikola.
They rented an engine-run boat for a ride in Chalan Beel.
Some of them sat on the roof of the boat's cabin and five drowned after being electrocuted by a power line that came near the surface of the water due to floods.
The others rescued two immediately, but the three others went missing.
The locals recovered the bodies in a search operation, the OC said.