A person was electrocuted in Budhiganga Rural Municipality-2 of Morang district on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Ram Mandal (30) of Biratnagar Metropolitan City-6. DSP Deepak Shresth said that the tragedy occurred while he was cutting bamboo to construct a house in Budhiganga-2.

He said that Mandal was critically injured after the bamboo touched the 11, 000-volt high tension wire.

Following the incident, he was rushed to the Birat Teaching Hospital in Budhiganga but breathed his last during the course of treatment at around 5 pm yesterday. The body has been kept at the Koshi Hospital for postmortem. Police said that they are looking into the case.