A 12-year-old unidentified boy died after being hit by an iron rod that fell on him from the under-construction Dhaka Elevated Expressway in the capital on Monday.
Abdul Kader Emon, who took the boy to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), said the rod pierced the boy in the morning.
The injured boy was first rushed to a local hospital and later to the DMCH, he said.
Physicians at the emergency department of the DMCH declared the boy dead, said Inspector Md Bachchu Miah, in-charge of the hospital’s police outpost.
