Kurigram: A farmer died from electrocution at Madhupur village of Ulipur upazila in Kurigram on Saturday afternoon, reports UNB.

Ulipur police officer-in-charge Jamir Uddin said Angkon, 30, son of Sunil Chandra, came in contact with a live wire of an irrigation pump in his cropland at the village in the afternoon and was injured critically.

Later he was rushed to Ulipur upazila health complex where doctors declared him dead.