Wedding turns into tragedy
The house was full of extended family members and friends preparing for the wedding.
The Gaye Holud, a pre-wedding ceremony, for bride Shahnaz Akhtar Ratna had just ended around 1:30am at the house in Montri Para area of Sreepur upazila.
Everyone was making arrangements for the feast for nearly 500 guests expected to arrive within hours.
But everything changed when the bride's younger brother Shamsul Alam, 22, was electrocuted by a fan beside the wedding stage.
The wedding was postponed and people in the neighbourhood were shocked to hear about the death of Shamsul, who was a final-year student at Barami College in the upazila.
“I was on the stage. My brother was walking by an electric fan. I just saw him collapse and fall to the ground,” the shocked bride said.
The family members rushed him to the upazila health complex where doctors pronounced him dead, said a relative.
Shamsul is survived by his parents and three sisters.
The victim was buried at the family graveyard after a namaj-e-janaza yesterday afternoon.
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