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Schoolboy electrocuted
A school student was electrocuted and three others including his mother were injured in Shah Makhdum area of the city yesterday. The deceased, Tareq Rahman, 13, was son of Ayub Ali of the area and a student of class VII at Baya School and College. Three others including Tareq's mother Rubina Begum, 30, were given first aid treatment at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital. Police and locals said, Tareq came in contact with live electric wire while doing repair work at their house at around 4:00pm. When his mother, neighbor Hira Khatun, 28, and her son Riazul Islam, 7, proceeded to save Tareq, they sustained injuries. An unnatural death case was filed in this connection, Shah Makhdum police station officer-in-charge Fazlul Haque said.
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