A man and his wife were electrocuted at Pipara in Kanchanrup Municipality-5 of Saptari on Sunday. 

The deceased have been identified as Badri Sardar (50) and his wife Bimala Devi (45), 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. 

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.