India, Nov. 20 -- A 60-year-old booth-level officer (BLO) engaged by the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in West Bengal suffered a cerebral attack during duty in North 24 Parganas district's Konnagar town on Wednesday evening, her family said.

This comes just hours after another BLO died by suicide in the Mal area of Jalpaiguri district on Wednesday morning, with her family claiming she could not handle the work pressure.

Tapati Biswas, an Anganwadi worker entrusted with the SIR at the town's polling booth number 279, was admitted to the Konnagar Matrisadan Hospital, her husband Prabir Kumar Biswas said.

"My wife had been complaining about excessive work pressure...