A construction worker named Dani Islam (50) died on Thursday afternoon after a wall collapsed on him during renovation work at the canteen of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) at the University of Dhaka (DU).
The incident occurred around 3:00 PM. Dani was critically injured when part of a wall caved in on him. He was immediately rushed to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where attending doctors declared him dead.
According to his co-workers, Dani hailed from Nayanagar village in Itna upazila of Kishoreganj district and had been living in a rented house in Mirpur-10, Dhaka.
One eyewitness reported that the wall collapsed suddenly during the ongoing renovation of the IBA canteen, trapping Dani beneath the debris. Fellow workers quickly rescued him and transported him to the hospital.
Inspector Md. Faruk, in charge of the DMCH police outpost, confirmed the incident and said the body has been kept in the hospital morgue. Shahbagh police station has been informed of the matter.
DU Associate Professor and Proctor Saifuddin Ahmed commented, “The deceased worker was employed under a contractor and was not a university staff member. His family has been notified. The body will be handed over to them after a post-mortem examination.”