Construction worker falls to death

Staff Correspondent
A construction worker died after falling from the fifth floor of an under-construction building in the capital's Pallabi area yesterday. The deceased was Moktar Hossain, 28, of Borhanuddin in Bhola. He had been working at the building, a project of Western Developers Ltd, for a month. Mahbub, co-worker of the deceased, said Moktar slipped and fell down the building during work around 10:00am. Moktar was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.