SAPTARI, Aug 17: A couple died due to electrocution in Pipara of Kanchanrup Municipality-5 of Saptari this morning. The deceased have been identified as 50-year-old Badri Sardar and his 45-year-old wife Bimala Devi, said Madhav Prasad Kafle, Deputy Superintendent of Police of the Area Police Office, Kanchanpur.
Mahendra Sardar of Pipara, Kanchanrup-5, had installed a live electric wire to protect the paddy crop from elephants. The Sardar couple died after falling on the same exposed wire.
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They were going to their farmland about 150 meters east of their house, when the incident took place early this morning, according to the police.
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