A farmer died from an electric shock while disconnecting a trap he had set to drive rats away from his field in Bhairab, Kishoreganj.
Saidur Rahman Jaj Mia, 55, was electrocuted at about 12 p.m. Monday, November 2, in Shimulkandi village of Shimulkandi union.
Saidur was the husband of Monowara Begum, a former female vice-chair of Bhairab upazila council. He was the son of the late Mofiz Uddin of Badsha Bari in Shimulkandi village.
Police and local sources said Saidur had connected electric wires to rice bundles to protect his crop from rats. He switched the trap on at night and off in the morning. He was electrocuted while trying to disconnect it on Monday morning.
Family members and local residents took him to Bhairab Upazila Health Complex, where the duty doctor declared him dead after examination.
Bhairab police station officer-in-charge Md Mahbubur Rahman confirmed that legal procedures were under way.
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