A worker died falling from the rooftop of an under-construction building at Bashundhara in the capital yesterday morning.
The deceased, identified as Mohammad Miraz, 24, hails from Boalmari, Faridpur.
Workers at the construction site blamed the death on lack of safety gears.
A fellow worker, Zakir Mollah, said four labourers around 9:45am joined work on the rooftop of the four-storey building.
"We were removing wooden frames from the newly-built pillars. Miraz pulled a wood piece from a pillar which was at the edge of the rooftop and suddenly lost control," he said.
His head hit the boundary wall of the adjacent building before he fell to the ground, Zakir added.
Miraz was rushed to a nearby hospital and then shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Doctors around 2:00pm declared him dead, Badda police said.
Zakir said Miraz would not have died had there been protective arrangements.
Following the incident, workers stopped the construction work.
An unnatural death case was filed with Badda Police Station in this connection, said Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of the police station.
Source : The Daily Star
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