Aizawl, Mar 28 (PTI) The lone Mara Democratic Front (MDF) legislator P P Thawla today urged the Mizoram government to pay adequate ex-gratia to the next-of-kin of the nine bus passengers electrocuted to death on March 25 in southernmost Mizoram's Saiha district.Raising the matter in the calling attention motion of the state Assembly, Thawla demanded that adequate ex-gratia should be paid to the next-of-kin of the victims and also inducted members of the victim's families in the power and electricity department on compassionate ground and as part of compensation.Alleging that the deaths due to electrocution were results of criminal negligence on part of the state power department, he pointed out that three other persons had died due to electrocution in the recent years in Saiha district. He also urged the government to undertake verification of the power transmission lines to avoid further casualties in the future.Nine people, including two married couples and a father and his son, were killed due to electrocution after the bus they were travelling got electrocuted in south Mizoram Saiha district on Friday.The reports said that the private bus, carrying 32 passengers from Saiha town to Phura village carried utensils on its roof which touched the live electric wires between New Serkawr and New Latawh."The conductor was on the roof of the bus, trying to prevent the electric wires from coming into contact with the bus, but was forced to jump down after he failed, and the bus was electrocuted," sources in Saiha said. All the nine people who died tried to escape from the door of the bus, and the rest who escaped from the bus windows escaped unhurt, the sources said.