Labourer dies while working on May Day !

Ill-fated Ibrahim alias Baitul, 16, son of Ayub Ali of Dakkhin para village in Gangachhara, Rangpur was killed here while working on the holiday in Dhaka Tobacco Industries Ltd at Golora here.

However, Rabiul Alam, administrator of the industrial unit held Mohammad Monayem, a contractor of an under-construction building of the unit responsible for the death. He told this correspondent that no work was done on the day in his unit. But Monayem informed that Ibrahim was not a labourer of his construction site. He was electrocuted inside the industrial unit, he affirmed.

Meanwhile, labourers and local people claimed that the victim might have been saved if the authorities of the industry provided vehicle to shift him to a hospital for his treatment.

Md Yunus Ali, cousin of the ill-fated teen alleged that neither the industrial unit authorities nor the contractor concerned gave any financial help to the victim's family, rather 'they compelled the deceased family to leave Manikganj as early as possible after the incident,' they lamented.