A 24-year-old labourer was killed and three others injured when a part of an under-construction portico at St. Martha's Hospital on Nrupatunga Road collapsed on them while they were working in the early hours of Tuesday.
The victims were stuck for several minutes under the debris of the collapsed portico, before Fire and Emergency Services personnel rescued and shifted them to the hospital where one of them, Basavaraj succumbed. St. Martha’s Hospital, in a statement, said one of the four was found to be unresponsive at the site of accident and attempts to resuscitate him were ongoing. However, he later succumbed to death, police sources said.
The other injured Moinuddin, Chand Pasha and Rafisab, are being treated at the hospital and said to be out of danger. St. Martha’s Hospital in a statement said one of them had minor injuries, the other had fractured his leg and the third was critically injured but was revived and was undergoing treatment.
