Samastipur, Aug. 19 -- Three members of a family died of electrocution in Samastipur district of Bihar, police said on Monday.
The deceased were identified as Arun Ram (40), his mother Shanti Devi (60), and his son Ajit Kumar Ram (16), a police officer said, adding that Arun's six-month-old daughter sustained severe burn injuries in the incident. The incident occurred in Bibhutipur Purab (east) panchayat on Sunday evening after a service wire connected to the family's house reportedly snapped when Arun was trying to remove the live wire from the contact of a tree with the help of bamboo.HTC
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