Pawan Kumar (15) died on the spot when he came in touch with a high tension electricity line while climbing the top of the cabin of his father's truck parked to unload fly ash at a ground in Eklera village, a police official said.
Rukmanibai (45), a daily wage labourer who was working on that truck, also received electric shock. She was taken to a hospital in an unconscious state where the doctors declared her brought dead, he said.
All the bodies were handed over to their families after post mortem, police said, adding cases under Section 174 of CrPC have been registered.
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