KOLKATA: Three persons of a family — a couple and their 10-year-old son — died of electrocution in a waterlogged room of a
Khardah
apartment on Tuesday afternoon. The couple's four-year-old son Neel, who was on the bed, survived.
The incident took place around 4.30pm on Tuesday when 38-year-old
Raja Das
, a car driver by his profession, got electrocuted after he touched the electric switch board to plug in his cell phone charger in the waterlogged room on the ground floor of a government housing complex at Khardah's Patulia near Rahara.
His wife Poulomi got electrocuted when she tried to save her husband. Their elder son Subho met with the same fate when he tried to save his parents.
It was four-year-old Neel ,who was on the bed in the same room then, started shouting to draw the attention of the neighbours. “On hearing his screams, we rushed to their room to find the trio lying on the floor.
They were rushed to the Barrackpore BN Bose hospital where all three were declared brought dead,” said Pratima Dey, a neighbour.
“All the rooms on the ground floor of the housing are waterlogged. We suspect a short-circuit of the switch board of Das' waterlogged room,” said Tamal Sen, a resident of the housing. After being informed, a
WBSEDCL
team rushed to the spot to suspend power supply to the housing.
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