Two children die after wall collapses in Badda

The bodies have been kept in the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital

Two children have died after an old border wall of a building under construction collapsed in Dhaka’s Badda.

The incident took place around 11:15am on Wednesday in the Lane No. 10 area of Uttar Badda’s Purbachal. The dead were identified as 5-year-old Nusrat and 12-year-old Ayesha Moni.

After the accident, the two were rescued and taken to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) around 1:15pm. The doctor on duty then declared both of them dead, said Inspector Md Faruk, officer-in-charge of DMCH Police Outpost.

Ayesha was the daughter of Md Iqbal, a building painter who hails from Yafedi village in Cumilla’s Barura Upazila. She lived with her family in a house in Uttar Badda Purbachal. Ayesha was the second of three siblings and was studying in the second grade of a local school.

Nusrat was the daughter of construction worker Md Sharif, who hailed from Malwadi village in Kishoreganj’s Pakundia Thana. They were tenants in a house owned by Iqbal, Ayesha’s father, in the area.

Iqbal said his daughter and Nusrat were playing beside the house in the morning.

“A building near our house is under construction. The old boundary wall of that building collapsed and buried Ayesha and Nusrat.”

The bodies have been kept at the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Inspector Faruk said.