Boy dies in rooftop fall

A 10-year old boy died after falling from a roof of a six-storied building at Shabujbagh in the city yesterday.

The boy was identified as Mohammad Russel, 10, son of Mohammad Badshah of Manda area. Russel was living with his parents on the first floor of the building.

Russel's mother Rabeya Begum said her son went to the roof at around 8:30pm on Tuesday due to excessive heat following the power outage at their flat.

He fell from the roof and landed on the roof of a tin-shed house adjacent to the building when he was playing with other children of different flats.

Family members rushed him to the National Institute of Traumatology, Orthopedic and Rehabilitation (NITOR) where he succumbed to his injuries at around 1:00am yesterday.