A video of the lynching went viral on social media
The woman, Sheuly Begum, 40, was passing by at the Mir Hajirbagh area when the stick from a four-storey building under construction hit her on Tuesday afternoon, Demra Police Station OC Md Siddiqur Rahman told bdnews24.com.
“There was a storm lashing the area at the time,” he said.
Sheuly, hailing from Chandpur, lived at West Hajinagar in the city with her garment factory worker husband Imran Hossain, Sub-Inspector Abdul Awal said.