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Heatwave in Burdwan kills official at polling booth during phase-3 of Bengal election

Heatwave claimed the life of a block-level officer maintaining the queue outside a polling station in Burdwan district of West Bengal.

|Apr 21, 2016, 19:26:40 IST

Kolkata: Heatwave claimed the life of a block-level officer maintaining the queue outside a polling station in Burdwan district of West Bengal, where the third phase of assembly election was held on Thursday.[caption id="attachment_2742102" align="alignleft" width="380"]

Representational image. PTI[/caption]Rabindranath Ghosh (40), involved in queue information system at booth number 65 in Mangalkot constituency died after suffering a sunstroke as he was standing for long hours, EC officials said.Burdwan district is reeling under a heatwave and Asansol town recorded a temperature of 44 degrees Celsius during the day, IMD official said.

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