A construction worker, Mohammad Noyon Mia, 22, died after falling from the 18th floor of a 20-storey under-construction building in Dhaka鈥檚 Azimpur area Sunday afternoon.
Noyon, a resident of Godagari upazila in Rajshahi, had been living at the construction site.
According to police and family sources, he fell while working on the roof casting at about 12:30pm.
He was rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital emergency unit, where doctors declared him dead at about 1:30pm.
Colleague Mohammad Rahat Hossain said that Noyon fell while working on the 18th floor. They recovered and took him to the DMCH, but he was pronounced dead.
Md Faruk, in-charge of the DMCH police outpost, confirmed that the body was sent to the morgue for an autopsy.
Lalbagh police station officer-in-charge Kyasawhnue Marma said that they were investigating the incident and would take legal action after speaking with the victim鈥檚 family.