A nine-year-old domestic help died after she fell from the roof of a 7-storey building at Arjotpara in city’s Tejgaon yesterday.
Jharna, who hailed from Mymensingh, was working in the house of Lutfor Rahman, owner of a poultry farm in Gazipur.
On information, a team of police reached the spot at about 11:30am and sent the body to Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy, said Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Tejgaon police Station.
Neighbours said after hearing the sound, they went to the spot and found the body of the girl lying on the ground.
The OC also said none was present in the house during the incident.