At least three passengers of an electric-run auto-rickshaw were killed and several others sustained injuries after walls from different floors of an under-construction multi-storied building of a garments factory fell up on them while they had been passing through the area on Sarurday night at Kutubail of the capital’s outskirt Fatullah under Narayanganj district.
The deceased and injured persons were sent to Narayangang Hospital, but identities of the victims could not be known immediately.
Inspector Akhter Hossain, officer-in-charge of Fatullah Police Station, told the Dhaka Tribune that all three persons died on the spot after construction materials and the walls of different floors of the under-construction building ‘Captex Garments Ltd’ fell up on those persons when they had been crossing the area by an electric-run easy-bike at around 9:30pm.
“The incident that claimed lives of thee innocent people took place just for the negligence of the building authorities”, Inspector Akhter Hossain said. “Neither the construction workers nor the building authorities took any kind of safety measure during the construction of the multi-storey building on the roadside.”He added.
He also said there was neither safety net attached to the building side nor any shed on the road adjacent although construction site.
The building was being constructed while several hundred workers of the garments factory had also been working on different lower floors of building, Akhter informed.
Asked, the OC said they were trying to identify the victims and also searching for the persons responsible for the death of those innocent people.
Sources and witnesses said being a very busy place and with several other garments factories located in the area, people always have to pass through the place amid sheer panic.
