5-year-old boy dies after wall collapses on him in Dhaka

A five-year-old boy has died after the wall of a rickshaw garage collapsed onto him in Dhaka's Rampura.

The incident occurred in the Kunjaghar area of the capital’s Rampura TV Centre as a woman was walking with her two children around 9:15am on Thursday.

The deceased was identified as Jisan Bhuiyan. His father Miraj Bhuiyan drives a three-wheeler. They are natives of Brahmanbaria and live in a rented house close to the scene of the accident.

The victim’s maternal uncle Nayan Raj said Jisan’s mother Jhumur Begum was carrying her two-year-old daughter Fatima and had gone out with her son to buy tea in the morning. A portion of the boundary wall fell on Jisan as he was walking past the local rickshaw garage near their house.

He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where a doctor declared him dead around 10am.