Two construction workers died after falling from an under-construction building in Agargaon area of Dhaka on Friday.
The deceased were identified as Shahadat Hossain,22, and Md Rokon,32, of Kazipur upazila in Sirajganj district, reports UNB.
The accident happened at the 14-storey building at West Agargaon around 2:45 pm.
Kabir Hossain, a fellow worker of the victims, said the construction work was going on in different floors of the building.
The duo was working standing on a scaffold to build a wall of the building. They accidentally fell to the safety shelf on the second floor after the rope of the scaffold snapped, leaving them critically injured.
They were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared them dead around 4:45 pm, Kabir said.
Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH Police Outpost said, the bodies were kept in the hospital morgue for autopsies.