Two construction workers died after falling from an under-construction building in Agargaon area of the city on Friday.The deceased were identified as Shahadat Hossain,22, and Md Rokon,32, of Kazipur upazila in Sirajganj district.The accident happened at the 14-storey building at West Agargaon around 2:45 pm.Kabir Hossain, a fellow worker of the victims, said the construction work was going on in different floors of the building. Read: Two siblings drown in BagerhatThe duo was working standing on a scaffold to build a wall of the building. They accidentally fell to the safety shelf on the second floor after the rope of the scaffold snapped, leaving them critically injured.They were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared them dead around 4:45 pm, Kabir said.Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH Police Outpost said, the bodies were kept in the hospital morgue for autopsies.  

A teenage girl died falling off the roof of a four-storey building in the city’s Hazaribagh Borhanpur area Suday. The deceased was identified as Jhumur Akhter (13)  a fifth-grade student of Hazaribagh Happy Times School and daughter of Md. Russell, a cable operator in the area. Read:Chandpur: Teenager killed by lightning, man dies falling from tree The incident occured at around 5:30 pm when she was playing with other teenagers on the roof of the four-storey tenement building. Sabbir Hossain, a cousin of the deceased who brought her to the hospital, said that while playing with others she inadvertently fell off the roof and was seriously injured. She was first taken to a local clinic and later to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMRCH) at around 6:30 pm where the doctor on duty declared her dead. Read:Worker dies falling off under-construction building in city Md Bachchu Mia, a police inspector at the DMRC police camp, said that the body has been kept in the hospital morgue for autopsy. The incident has been reported to the concerned police station, he added.