Staff Reporter:
An unidentified street child, aged around 12, died after falling from the roof of a train in the Sainik Club area under Banani Police Station in the capital on Wednesday.
He was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) with critical injuries around 5:30pm, where doctors declared him dead upon arrival at the emergency department.
Synthia Akhter, a pedestrian who helped take the child to hospital, said the boy fell from a moving train roof around 3pm and sustained serious injuries.
He was first taken to Kurmitola General Hospital, but was later shifted to DMCH as his condition deteri-orated.
Inspector Md Faruk, in-charge of the DMCH police camp, said the body has been kept at the hospital morgue.
The matter has been reported to the concerned Railway Police Station, he added.
