Boy electrocuted just 5hrs after joining factory

Ending an eight-hour-long struggle for life, a 13-year-old boy succumbed to his burn injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) last night.
The deceased Mohammad Sohel, a resident of Kalapani in the city's Pallabi, had around 96 percent of his body burnt when he accidentally came in contact with a power cable at his workplace around 1:15pm yesterday.
Sohel had joined the garment factory, Remon Tex Limited, near Mirpur-10 roundabout, as a helper only five hours prior to the accident.
The factory is in a six-storied building. A clothing store takes up the ground and first floors while the factory is housed on the remaining four floors, erected on a part of the first floor roof.
Sohel had just come down a fire escape connecting the roof of the first floor and the fifth floor to have lunch with colleagues when he came in contact with the high-voltage electricity supply wire.
His colleagues said they heard a loud bang and saw Sohel go up in flames.
Firefighters rescued and admitted him to the Burn Unit of DMCH, where he died at around 9:00pm.
Officer-in-Charge of Mirpur Police Station, Kazi Wazed Ali, said he found the overhanging unprotected wire at a height of five feet from the roof of the first floor.
He said the factory authorities closed the building and fled.
Sohel's father, Imam Hossain, said he had no idea that his son, a student of class I in a local school, took up a job in the factory.