18 Sep 2019, 9:00 AM
A foreign construction worker fell to his death on Wednesday from the eighth floor of a building in the capital’s suburb Hulhumalé.
The 37-year-old man sustained severe head injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Hulhumalé hospital, a media official told the press.
He was reportedly working on the Hiyaa social housing flats in the landmass reclaimed for the second phase of the Hulhumalé artificial island. The incident occurred around noon on Wednesday.
Construction-site accidents are common in the capital and its suburbs. In July, a 24-year-old Bangladeshi construction worker died after being crushed by a falling “jumbo bag” of cement. A 44-year-old Bangladeshi man died in February after he was hit by a falling stone at a construction site in Hulhumalé.
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