A 32-year-old worker died after falling off an under-construction building in the capital’s Bhasantek area Tuesday afternoon.
Md Julhas Mridha was the son of late Hamid Mridha, of Banakata area under Dohar police station in Dhaka.
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Monir Hossain, a co-worker of the victim, said Julhas fell off the third floor of the 10-storey under-construction building in the Bhasanteke area while he was working, leaving him critically injured.
He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where physicians pronounced him dead upon arrival, said Md Bachhu Mia, inspector of the hospital police outpost.
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The body was kept at the hospital’s morgue for autopsy, he added.