Man killed as railing collapses during quake in Dhaka's Mugda
The deceased has been identified as Maksud, 50, a security guard who hailed from Charshita village in Ramgati upazila of Lakshmipur.
A man was killed after a railing from an under-construction building collapsed on him during the earthquake this morning (21 November) in the Modinabag area in the capital's Mugda.
The deceased has been identified as Maksud, 50, a security guard who hailed from Charshita village in Ramgati upazila of Lakshmipur.
The incident occurred around 10:45am at Miaji Goli area in Modinabag.
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Confirming the matter to The Business Standard, Mugda Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sajedur Rahman said, "Maksud was attempting to exit the building in fear as the quake struck when a railing from the upper floors gave way and fell directly on his head, leaving him critically injured."
"Locals rushed him to the emergency department of Mugda Medical College and Hospital, where doctors declared him dead around 11:45am," the OC added.
OC Sajedur further said police later recovered the body in the evening and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
The collapse occurred shortly after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake jolted the country at 10:38am, with its epicentre in Madhabdi, Narsingdi — about 13km east of the seismic centre in Dhaka's Agargaon, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).
With Maksud's death, nine people have been killed so far.
