Four people lost their lives due to electrocution amid the waterlogging caused by heavy rainfall in Dhaka on Friday.
The deceased are Md Alauddin, 17, Rasel Das, 27, Abdur Nur, 35 and Aiyub Ali, 45.
Among them, Alauddin and Rasel were workers at a furniture factory, Nur was a construction worker and Aiyub Ali was a house painter by profession.
Pallabi police station Sub-Inspector Abdul Aziz informed journalists that Alauddin and Rasel were working at a furniture factory near Aziz Market in Pallabi. They both lived in rented houses in the Pallabi area.
Relatives said that while trying to move wooden planks amidst the rainwater at the furniture factory, both workers were electrocuted due to inadvertent contact with electricity.
Bystanders rescued them and rushed them to Kurmitola General Hospital, where doctors pronounced them dead, they said.
The exact cause of death is being determined through post-mortem examinations at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Legal procedures are currently underway, said SI Abdul Aziz.
Kotwali police station Assistant Sub-Inspector Rajib Dhali said that on the way to Agarbatti Lane near the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Mohammad Ayub Ali, 45, was electrocuted by touching an electrical pole amidst the rainwater accumulated there.
Subsequently, with the assistance of local people, his relatives rescued him and took him to a nearby hospital, from where he was transferred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The attending doctors there declared him dead, he added.
Uttara Paschim police station Sub-Inspector Pronoy Krishna Mondal said that during the heavy rainfall, water had accumulated on the ground floor of a house in the Uttara area. Electrical wires were submerged in the water. While Abdur Nur was walking through the water, he accidentally got electrocuted and lost consciousness.
He was quickly rescued and taken to Kurmitola Hospital, where he was pronounced dead by attending physicians. After completing the legal procedures, his body has been sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for post-mortem, he added.