Wall collapse near Dhaka airport kills worker

A day labourer was killed as a wall partially collapsed on him near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday morning.

Golam Mostofa, 40, along with his co-workers was repairing a drain when a part of the adjacent wall of the customs C&F building collapsed on them, said Nure Azam Mia, officer-in-charge of Airport Police Station.

Hearing screams, locals pull out Golam from under the debris. He was declared dead at a local hospital.

Later, five fire fighting units and a Rapid Action Battalion team joined the rescue operation that was called off around 2:00pm. The injured workers took first-aid at different hospitals.

Saleh Uddin, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence, told reporters that many day labourers joined in works without earning expertise which causes such incident.