A worker was killed and another injured critically falling from a scrap vessel at a ship-breaking yard at Tatultala of Sitakunda upazila Saturday.
Deceased Mohammed Salim, 28, son of Abdul Aziz, was from Giridarpur of Iswarganj in Mymensingh.
Nur Mohammad was injured in the incident.
The police and local sources said the workers fell down to the ground from the ship at the Peninsula Ship-breaking Yard while cutting the pipelines of the ship at about 11:00am.
The yard is owned by Jafar Alam.
Sitakunda police officer-in-charge Nur Mohammad said the co-workers rescued them in a critical condition and took them to Chittagong Medical College and Hospital, where the doctors announced Salim dead in the afternoon.
Earlier this year, at least six deaths had occurred in different accidents at the Sitakunda ship breaking yards, on January 18 at least four workers died in an explosion at the Mac Corporation ship-breaking yard, on March 16 one was killed while on August 14 yet another man lost his life.
In 2010, at least nine workers were killed in eight accidents at different ship breaking yards at Sitakunda while in 2009, 23 workers were killed in 14 accidents.
Source : New Age
