Worker electrocuted
A construction worker died and two coworkers suffered injuries after being electrocuted while working on top of a five-storied building at Tejgaon Industrial Area in the city yesterday.
The deceased Sayeed Ahmed, 45, and injured Billal Hossain, 42, and Mohammad Farukh, 42, were setting up a boiler for a chocolate factory on the roof of the building situated in front of the old Film Development Corporation gate.
Mohammad Shahidullah, a coworker, said the three were pulling up iron pipes from the ground floor using iron chains around 2:30pm. Suddenly, a pipe got caught in an electricity transmission line adjacent to the building, electrocuting the three, he said.
Hearing their cries, coworkers rushed to the spot and admitted them to Dhaka Medical College where doctors declared Sayeed dead, he added.
Sub-Inspector Monir Hossain of Tejgaon Industrial Police Station said no compliant was lodged with police in this connection.
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