In a freak accident, two women were electrocuted after they came in contact with a live electric wire in their house at Unit-IX under the Saheed Nagar police station in the city on Wednesday.
The deceased women were identified as sister-in-laws. The duo was rushed to the Capital Hospital, where the doctors declared them brought dead.
Sources said they were busy in their household chores when they accidentally came in touch with the live electric wire.
Police sent the bodies for postmortem and launched a probe into the incident.