Boy killed in wall collapse

A 6-year-old boy was killed as a wall collapsed on him at Dakkhin Ramshala village in Akkelpur upazila Saturday. The deceased was identified as Mehedi, son of Emdadul Haque and a Class I student of local Brac school. Sources said due to heavy downpour, the rain-soaked wall of the house fell on Mehedi when he was playing near it, leaving him critically injured. When he was rushed to upazila health complex doctors declared him dead.