A rickshaw-van puller died on Thursday afternoon after a brick had fallen on his head from sixth floor of a multi-storey building when he was sitting on the ground under the building of Baitul Aman Housing Society at Adabar in Dhaka, the police said.
The deceased Mosharraf Hossain, 55, of Madaripur, died on the spot and the body was sent to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination, the family said. The victim's son Aiyub Ali at the DMCH said that the brick had fallen on
Mosharraf off a veranda on the sixth floor of the head office of Padakhep Manabik Unnayan Kendra about 4:00pm.
Mosharraf was playing ludo with his friends on his van when the accident took place, the police and witnesses said. The police said that they were yet to establish how the brick had fallen down on Mosharraf.
'We suspect that a brick might have accidentally fallen down after being hit by someone,' Adabar police subinspector Humayun Kabir said.
The police were yet to arrest anyone in this connection.
'We do not arrest anyone until we could establish who killed the man,' said the Adabar police officer-in-charge, Jakir Hossain Mollah.
No case was filed in this connection till 8:30pm.
Earlier on Monday, a case against the chairman and six other executives of a construction firm for the death of 28-year old plumber Shahabuddin Hawlader at the site of an under construction nine-storey building, Assort Bailey Farhat, on Bailey Road on Sunday.
On July 16, Habibur Rahman Munna, 18, an HSC examinee of Tejgaon College, died on the spot after a brick had fallen on him from the 10th floor of a 15-storey under-construction building of a Sagufta project on Panthapath in the capital.
Source : Nge Age
