A five-year-old girl was today electrocuted at her residence at Tiljala in east Kolkata, the police said.
Suhana Khatun, resident of Tiljala Masjid Bari Lane in the Karaya police station area, was killed when she held an iron gate which was touched by a live wire this morning.
Her parents took her to the CNMC Hospital where she was declared 'brought dead'. The body of the deceased was handed over to her father after post-mortem was done at the NRS Hospital.
Last Monday, a 14-year-old student Yash Bengani, a student of Class VIII of Bhowanipore Education Society, was electrocuted while returning from tuition through knee-deep waters in the Bhowanipore police station area.
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