Worker killed in Ctg ship breaking yard

A ship-breaking worker died from injury sustained while working in a yard at Sitakunda in Chittagong yesterday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Mohammad Aziz, 32, son of Nurul Alam, of Moheshkhali in Cox's Bazar.
Sub-Inspector Jahirul Islam, in-charge of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) Police Outpost, said Aziz suddenly slipped on the stair and fell to the platform while working at the ship-breaking yard, S Trading Corporation, around 1:00pm.
Seriously injured Aziz was rushed to the CMCH where doctors declared him dead around after one and a half hours.
With this, nine such accidents have occurred in ship-breaking yards this year, in which nine people have died.
Last year, 11 workers died in similar accidents, sources said.