Accident: High-rise worker falls to death

Man was working on the fourth floor of an under-construction building when he lost his balance and slipped.

ISLAMABAD: A labourer was killed in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on Monday while working on a private building, the police said. Zakar Hussain Shah, 44, was working on the fourth floor of an under-construction building when he lost his balance and slipped. He was shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences with critical injuries and died at the hospital. According to Investigation Officer Muhammad Arif, Shah was from Faisalabad and his family had reached to Islamabad to collect his body.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 14^th, 2012.