Seven die across Bengal

Seven persons were killed across West Bengal today in different incidents - four of them in electrocution and three others in lightning strike, the police said.
The city police said that two persons, Dilip Malik (55) and his wife Aparna Malik (50), were electrocuted near Chowbhaga over Basanti Highway when a high tension overhead wire snapped and fell on them.
Both of them were taken to the NRS Medical College Hospital where they were declared "brought dead."
In the same incident, Aloka Biswas (45) was seriously injured and was admitted to the state-run NRS Medical College Hospital in a critical condition, the sources said.

In another incident in the Taltala police station area near St. James School, Kishore Yadav, 56, suffered a tragic death when after a bath at the roadside tap he placed his soap box on a CESC feeder box and was electrocuted.
In Howrah district near Belur, three persons were killed and five others injured when lightning struck a boat on the Ganga during a squall, the police said.
In Siliguri in north Bengal, Tapan Dasgupta, a CPI-M worker, was electrocuted after he came into contact with a live wire while trying to attach a banner to an electric pole here today.