In a tragic incident, a man and his wife were killed and their son sustained serious burn injuries due to electric shock at their house in Badamba area under Angul police station on Thursday.
According to reports, at around 2 pm, when Minati Rath (50) was doing her household works, she came in contact with a live electric wire. On her screaming, her husband Girish Rath (54), a teacher by profession, tried to rescue her. However, as ill luck would have it, the couple died on the spot.later, when their son Jibdesh Rath (18) rushed to rescue his parents, he also got the shock and sustained serious burn injuries. He is now undergoing treatment at the Angul district headquarters hospital. Meanwhile, police sent the bodies for postmortem.