Two hurt as iron bar falls on them
Two motorcyclists were injured as an iron bar fell on them from the ninth floor of an under-construction building at Banani in the capital yesterday.
Injured Atiqur Rahman Liton, 30, and Ibrahim Kabir Sagar, 25, have been admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Mokbul Hossain, sub-inspector of Banani Police Station, said an iron bar fell on the two as they were passing the building on road No-11 at Banani. Atiqur was driving the motorcycle.
Nizam Uddin, a worker at an adjacent building, who witnessed the incident, said construction workers were lifting some 10 feet long iron bars to the ninth floor by a crane when one of the bars fell on the driver's head and also hit the passenger's leg.
Nazim opined the driver only survived because he was wearing a helmet.
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