Bangladeshi worker dies after being crushed by bags of cement
Construction site accidents are all too common in Malé, one of the most densely populated cities in the world.
11 Jul 2019, 9:00 AM
A 24-year-old Bangladeshi construction worker has died after being crushed by a falling “jumbo bag” of cement.
According to the police, the accident happened at a construction site near Hulhumalé central park around 5.30pm on Wednesday. The young man had succumbed to his injuries by the time he was taken to hospital, police said.
Initially, local media reported that the man had died after being hit by a falling bag of cement, but a police spokeswoman told the Maldives Independent that the man had been hit by a construction jumbo bag which was loaded with several bags of cement.
In another near-fatal accident on the same construction site managed by Jaah Construction, a construction lift used to hoist building materials up the seven-storey building, malfunctioned and injured a worker.
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