Hawker dies in bamboo fall
Eight held
A betel leaf vendor was killed and another person injured after a piece of bamboo fell on them from a multi-storey under-construction building in the city's Segunbagicha.
The deceased, Babul Hossain, 40, son of Abdur Rahim of Munshiganj, lived on Topkhana road of the area. The injured, Md Rustam, 48, was taking tea at a roadside stall near the building.
Witnesses said Babul was also taking tea around 5:30pm at the same stall near Noor Mosque, when the bamboo fell on him from the rooftop of the nine-storey building named Navana Mukhles of Navana Real Estate.
Locals rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
A worker at the building said asking for anonymity that the bamboo slipped away from the rooftop while dismantling a construction frame.
Locals beat eight staff and workers of the construction site and handed them to Shahbagh Police Station. Site officials fled the scene but police seized the bamboo as evidence.
There was protective scaffolding at four-story height but the bamboo fell beyond it on the ground.
A site official of Navana told The Daily Star requesting anonymity that they were trying to negotiate the death incident with financial compensation.
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