Jangaon: A woman and her brother-in-law died of electrocution at Kundaram village of Lingala Ganapuram mandal in the district on Monday.
The deceased were identified as Anananthoju Swathi (37) and Anananthoju Uday Chary (26). It is said that Swathi, a mother of two, was trying to dry clothes when electricity passed through the iron wire used to hang the clothes. Noticing this, Uday Chary made an attempt to rescue her. But both died of electrocution. Lingala Ganapuram police have registered a case and shifted the bodies to Jangaon district headquarters hospital for postmortem.