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25 September 2011, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent

Two workers were electrocuted while setting up network towers of Orascom Telecom at Satmasjid Housing adjacent to Beri Bandh area of Mohammadpur in the city yesterday. The deceased were Zakir Hossain Mollah and Zakir Hossain, police said. They along with some other workers were setting up Banglalink network towers around 6:45pm in the area, when the two came in contact with a live wire and died on the spot. Police recovered and sent the bodies to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.