Dhaka, Jan. 26 -- A schoolboy has fallen to his death from a six-storey building attempting to retrieve a ball from the neighbouring roof in Old Dhaka's Lalbagh.

The 12-year-old sixth-grader Tushar Ahmed Kayes and his family lived on the fourth floor of the building. The incident occurred on Thursday, police said.

The boy's father Delowar Hossain supplies goods to a private company while his mother Happy Akter is a stay-at-home wife. Tushar was living at his grandparents' home since his parents split. He was their only child.

Inspector Md Bachchu Mia, chief of Dhaka Medical College Hospital Police Outpost, said relatives and neighbours found Tushar critically injured and rushed him to the hospital, where the doctor declared him dead. ...