In a bizarre incident a septuagenarian and his daughter-in-law died on spot on Tuesday morning due to electrocution, while the father -in -law attempted to save his son's wife who happens to be mother of three kids.
The incident took place at Pashi Dhora locality under Putki police station early today. The deceased have been identified as 70-year-old Chamar Pasi and 35 year old Guria Devi got electrocuted while Guria was attempting to remove the TV set that was kept on a steel trunk to take.out something.
The main line of the house was passing near the trunk and probably due to continuous rains current was flowing in the trunk. Seeing the condition of Guria , Chamar attempted to pull her but unfortunately himself also got electrocuted and died.
His son Prakash resides in Chennai where works as a contract labour in a firm Police from Putki police station reached on spot owing to the incident and took possession of both bodies and sent them for postmortem.
OC of the Putki police station said ,Prakash has been informed of the incident and has been asked to return to Dhanbad at the earliest. Police entered the house only when a shutdown was taken for the entire area.
Meanwhile, neighbours have been asked to look after the kids till their father returns.