A woman was killed yesterday as a piece of brick fell on her head when she was passing under a six-storey building being constructed at Banashree in the city.
The deceased was Parvin Akhter, a domestic help of Mohammad Babul from Block-l, Road-6 of the area.
Officer-in-charge Nazim Uddin of Khilgaon Police Station said two construction workers of the building rushed Parvin to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared her dead.
No case was filed in this connection.