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16 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Dinajpur

Two sisters were electrocuted when they came in contact of a live wire at village Dighan under Sadar upazila yesterday. They are Piari Khatun and Morzina Khatun, daughters of Azizul Haque. Husne Ara, 43, mother of the two girls was critically injured as she tried to rescue her daughters. She is now fighting for life at Dinajpur Medical College Hospital. Family sources said when Piari and her sister went out for collecting mango at an orchard they came in contact of live wire of Dinajpur Palli Biddut Samity and died on the spot.