PALANPUR: A woman and her daughter got electrocuted while drying clothes on a metal wire at their home in Bapla village of Dhanera taluka in
Banaskantha district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Pyariben Luhar (48) and her daughter Ranjan (22).
According to police, the incident occurred when Ranjan was drying clothes on a metal wire inside the house. Police said that
a loose wire of the ceiling fan had touched the metal wire on which the clothes were being put to dry.
First Ranjan got electrocuted and hearing her screams her mother came to rescue her.
But she also got electrocuted. “Both, the woman and her daughter, died on the spot before they could be saved,” said police sub-inspector A K Desai.
Pyariben’s husband
Ragabhai is a agriculture labourer.