At least 11 people were killed in separate incidents in the city’s Mirpur, Jatrabari, Sutrapur, Rupnagar, Hazaribagh and Demra areas on Friday.
In Sutrapur, two construction workers were killed as a crane collapsed while bringing down embroidery machines from a multi-storied building.
The dead were Mohammad Habib, 25, and Nawab Ali, 25, from Pirojpur and Shariatpur districts respectively.
Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of the Sutrapur police station, said the crane collapsed from the 10th floor of the 13-storey Great Wall Market building, leaving the two workers injured critically. The duo later succumbed to their injuries at a hospital.
In another incident at Mirpur 2, a construction worker, Monirul Biswash, who hailed from Ishwardi of Pabna, was electrocuted while he was working in an under-construction building.
In Jatrabari, a speedy Laguna hit Abdur Rahman, 8, a student of Jabia Arabia Kafimul Kulum Madrassa in the area, while he was crossing the road.
The minor boy was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where the on-duty doctors declared him dead.
Joti Begum, 65, of Gazipur was crushed under the wheel of a speedy vehicle around 11:30am while she was crossing the road at Rupnagar in the Beribadh area.
The body was sent to DMCH morgue.
Police recovered the floating body of a youth from the city’s Buriganga River around 4pm. The deceased was Robin, 15, a salesman of a cosmetic shop at Chawkbazar in the capital.
In Demra, a housewife was allegedly chopped to death in her house by her husband on Friday.
Sub-Inspector Shah Alam of Demra police station said they recovered the body of Afsana Begum, 26, from the house at Boxnagar in Sarulia around 8am.
There were several stab marks on the body, the police official said, adding that Afsana’s husband Abdul Karim fled after the incident. Police suspect the wife was killed by her husband over family feud.
The lawmen recovered the body of Ruma Akter, 25, a garment worker, wife of Jamal Hossain, from house No. 6/9/B, Tolarbagh area of the city.
Darus Salam police said the couple were locked in an altercation over family feud, and later on Friday morning, Ruma was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room.
An unnatural death case was filed with the police station in this regard.
Police recovered the hanging body of Kajal Chandra Das, 26, a RMG worker, from the city’s Alordi area of Pallabi in the capital and sent it to the DMCH morgue.
Kamruzzaman, sub-inspector of Pallabi police station, said, Kajal was locked in a clash with his wife last night.
The victim might have committed suicide following the quarrel, he said.
In Hazaribagh, two youths were drowned in Buriganga River Friday evening when they went to immerse an idol.
The dead were Suvom Palmiki, 17, a student of University Laboratory School and College, and Sajal Das, 17, of Mukulika Kindergarten High School.
