One dies while fishing with electric shock

Lamjung: A person died while fishing with an electric shock in a Kisedi stream of Dordi rural municipality-4 of Lamjung district last night.

Bikash Gurung (26 years old) of Jitare from the same rural municipality died as he accidentally caught an electric wire used for fishing, according to the District Police Office, Lamjung. According to the locals, Gurung had gone to the stream together with his friends at night.

They were passing current from a nearby outhouse for fishing in the stream, which, however, took Gurung’s life. The information officer at the District Police Office, Thaneshwor Chapai, informed a police team had reached the incident site immediately after getting information.

The concerned family has been handed over the dead body after postmortem.