Tree fall kills man at Chatmohar

CHATMOHAR, PABNA, Oct 19: A 25-year-old woodcutter was killed after being crushed by a falling tree while cutting it in Chatmohar Upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon.

The victim, Shafiqul Islam, was the son of Sadurul Islam Sadu of Bahadurpur Paschim Para Village in Mathurapur Union.

Local Union Parishad Member Yasin Ali said that at about 1:30 pm, Shafiqul was cutting a tree at a house belonging to a man named Abul in the Shajahan Mor area of the same union under the upazila when the tree fell on him, killed him on the spot.