Woman hit, killed by falling bamboo stick amid storm in Dhaka

A woman has died after being hit by a falling bamboo stick from a construction site in a freak accident at Demra amid a storm in Dhaka.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 26 March 2019, 01:58 PM
Updated : 26 March 2019, 08:53 PM

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.