A teenage girl and her younger brother died from electrocution at their house at Shahrasti upazila in Chandpur district on Saturday afternoon.
The deceased were Fahima Akter, 16, daughter of Shahjahan Bhuiyan, a resident of Pashchim Upalata area under Shahrasti municipality, and her brother Abdur Rahman Fahim, 7.
Locals said Fahim came in contact with an electric wire of a pump connected to a tube well next to their house. At that time, his elder sister Fahima came forward to save her, she also got entangled in the wire, leaving them injured.
Family members rescued them and took to Shahrasti Upazila Health Complex where the on-duty doctor declared them dead.
Shahrasti Model Police Station officer-in-charge Md Shaheed Hossain confirmed the matter.