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Worker dies falling off under-construction building in city

GreenWatch Desk Accidents 2022-09-25, 5:53pm




A worker died after falling from an under-construction building in the city’s Jatrabari area on Sunday.

The deceased was identified as mason Md Sohel Mollah, 30, of Patuakhali, reports UNB.

Md Nasir, a co-worker of Sohel, said Sohel was electrocuted as touched  an electric wire while working and fell from the 3rd floor of the building around 10am.

He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared him dead, said Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH Police Outpost.

The body has been kept at the hospital morgue, he added.