Four persons including a woman and two children were killed in separate incidents in Palamau district in the past 24-hours, police today said.
A 31-year-old man was today electrocuted in Sirha village under Hussainabad police station limits of the district, police said.
Suresh Baitha was carrying the Ramnavami flag during a Ramnavami festival being observed today, police said adding that the flag came in contact with the overhead high tension live wire of 11,000 volts and electrocuted.
In another incident, a 35-year-old woman's body was recovered floating from Kkukhi river under Hydernagar police station area this morning, police said.
The woman identified as Ramkalia Devi, who went out to collect grass last afternoon and did not return home, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Nasurallah Khan said.
However, the naked body of the woman was found floating in the river this morning, he said.
Khan did not rule out the possibility that the woman was raped before her throat was slit and her clothes were concealed underneath the riverbank, which was also recovered.
The body has been sent to Sadar Hospital for post-mortem, he said.
Two minors boys were drowned in a water-filled pit in Nawadiha village under Nawadiha Bazar police station area last evening, police said.
Avinash Kumar (9) and Vikash Kumar (8) had gone to witness a religious function in the village and drowned in the six-feet pit, police said.
