A 24-year-old Indian construction worker has died after falling from the eighth floor of an under-construction building in Sharjah.
The incident took place on Sunday when he was working on a building in Al Mamzar area in Sharjah, Khaleej Times reported today.
The engineers notified the police about the accident following which a probe was launched, a police spokesman said.
The body of the victim, who was not identified, was sent for postmortem, the report said.
Police are urging the engineers and construction workers to ensure that all safety procedures are in place at their work sites in order to avoid similar accidents as lapses in the safety regulations are a major offence and punishable by the emirates laws, it said.
Work-related accidents on construction sites are common in Sharjah. Though some cases are blamed on suicide bids, many are caused by safety lapses on these sites.
