  The branching fraction of the rate decay $B^0 \rightarrow K^{*0}e^+e^-$ in
the dilepton mass region from 30 to 1000 MeV$/c^2$ has been measured by the
LHCb experiment, using $pp$ collision data, corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of 1.0 fb$^{-1}$, at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The decay
mode $B^0 \rightarrow J/\psi(e^+e^-) K^{*0}$ is utilized as a normalization
channel. The branching fraction $B^0 \rightarrow K^{*0}e^+e^-$ is measured to
be $$ B(B^0 \rightarrow K^{*0}e^+e^-)^{30-1000 MeV/c^2}= (3.1\, ^{+0.9\mbox{}
+0.2}_{-0.8\mbox{}-0.3} \pm 0.2)\times 10^{-7}, $$ where the first error is
statistical, the second is systematic, and the third comes from the
uncertainties on the B^0 \rightarrow J/\psi K^{*0}$ and $J/\psi \rightarrow
e^+e^- $ branching fractions.
