<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Three members of a family including a child were electrocuted in Muradnagar upazila of Cumilla on Saturday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The deceased were identified as Hosne Ara Begum,60, her son Tara Mia,30 and her grandson Rifat Hossain, 8, said Jashim Uddin, a local UP member.</div><div><br></div><div>Rifat went to collect some vegetabls from a land beside their house at Elkhal village.</div><div><br></div><div>He got electrocuted when a electric wire connecting Doulatpur with Elakhal fell on him&nbsp; from a pole around 1:30 pm.</div><div><br></div><div>As his uncle Tara Mia and grandmother Hosne Ara rushed to save him they got electrocuted too, said UP member Jashim Uddin.</div><div><br></div><div>Later locals informed Doulatpur power office to cut the power connection but they died in the meantime, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Kamruzzaman Talukder, officer-in-Charge of Bangra Bazar police station, said the bodies were recovered and legal action will be taken in this regard. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>