Dhaka, Feb. 6 -- A teenage domestic worker has fallen to her death from the eighth floor of a residential building in Dhaka's Mohammadpur.

Preeti Udan, 15, from Mittinga village in Moulvibazar's Kamalganj Upazila, worked at the house of Syed Ashfaqul Haque, the executive editor of English-language newspaper The Daily Star, said Mahfuzul Haque Bhuiyan, the chief of Mohammadpur Police Station.

Police recovered and sent the girl's body to Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination after receiving news of the incident around 8am on Tueday.

Locals gathered in front of the house and started a demonstration after the incident, alleging that the girl was killed.

Ashfaqul, his wife Tania Haque, and six others from...