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AsiaPac · 13 mins ago

Another injured woman dies; Mirpur wall collapse toll reaches three

Five others are undergoing treatment at hospitals 25 SEC(s) ago UPDATED 25 SEC(s) ago Star Online Report An 8ft high boundary wall suddenly gave way as a group of people, mostly women, queued beside the college for subsidised TCB goods. Photo: Star The death toll from the boundary wall collapse at Mirpur University College rose to three after another injured woman died last night.Beauty Begum, 50, died around 9:00pm at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR), said Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station.She was injured while waiting to buy subsidised goods from the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) when the wall collapsed yesterday afternoon.Originally from Kalai upazila in Joypurhat, Beauty lived in a rented house near the sce
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