A six-year-old boy died after falling from a rooftop while flying a kite in Dhaka's Demra area this morning.

The boy was identified as Zubair. He used to live with his parents in the building.

Zubair was flying a kite on the rooftop of their one-storey building in Basherpool area around 8:00am. At one point he fell to the ground and sustained severed injuries. He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where doctors declared him dead, said the victim's uncle Mehedi Hasan.

The body was kept at morgue for autopsy, said Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH Police Outpost.