Pedestrian dies after under-construction building wall collapses in Dhaka

The victim was walking home after work when the accident happened, relatives say

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A woman has been killed after bricks from a collapsed wall of an under-construction building fell on her head during the rain in Dhaka’s Moghbazar.

The incident occurred around 8pm on Friday in lane No. 3 of Madhubagh, police said.

The victim, 35-year-old Rasheda Begum, a domestic worker and wife of rickshaw puller Saiful Islam from Gaibandha Sadar Upazila, lived with her family on the Madhubagh lane.

The couple have three daughters and two sons.

Her brother-in-law Sakhawat Hossain, who took her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said Rasheda had been walking home after finishing work when a portion of the wall fell on her head.

“She was taken to a nearby hospital in a critical condition and later shifted to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 9:45pm, where doctors declared her dead,” he added.

Police Inspector Md Faruk, in charge of the hospital outpost, said the body had been placed in the morgue, and the family had arrived at the hospital.