Two cousins die after falling off rooftop in Dhaka

Two cousins died after falling off the rooftop of a five-storey residential building in the capital's Kamrangirchar area on Friday.

The deceased were Abdur Rahim, 9, son of Roman Mia, and Lamiya Akter, 2, daughter of Abdur Rashid Mia, of Sunamganj, confirmed Inspector Md Bachchu Mia, in-charge of the police outpost at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).

The accident happened around 6:30pm in the Sylheti Bazar area of Ahsanbagh.

Roman Mia, father of the deceased Abdur Rahim, said they used to live on the rooftop of Borhan Mia's five-storey building at Ahsanbagh.

In the evening, Rahim and Lamiya were playing on the rooftop. As the roof did not have any sort of railings, they suddenly fell from there, he said.

They were rushed to the hospital where duty doctors declared them dead around 7:30pm, Roman added.

The bodies have been kept in the hospital morgue for autopsy, said Bachchu Mia.