Three women and eight men, engaged in Uttar Pradesh government-sponsored construction work, were electrocuted and two others injured in Lakhimpur Kheri district Tuesday, an official said.

"The accident took place at a construction site, where labourers were working for a housing project undertaken by the State Urban Development Authority (SUDA)," District Magistrate Sameer Verma told IANS on phone from Lakhimpur Kheri, some 150 km from here.