Worker falls to death from under-construction building in Sharjah

Sharjah - Experts list out reasons for repeated instances of people falling off high-rise

 A 27-year-old Pakistani worker fell to death from the 15th floor of an under construction building in Sharjah's Al Nahda area on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Faisal M.
The police were notified about the incident in the afternoon, after which police patrols and forensic officers were dispatched to the spot. The police have transferred the body to the morgue at Al Kuwaiti Hospital. The police are investigating if the fall was suicide ?or accidental
Cases of adults and children falling from high-rises in Sharjah are not uncommon, be they accidental or intentional.
According to head of Sharjah prosecution, Anwar Al Harmodi, the fall happens when people commit suicide, when children neglected by parents fall while playing in balconies or when labourers who do not abide by safety rules and fall accidently while on duty.
Al Harmodi appealed to parents to take proper care of their children and never to leave them unattended. He stressed that the balcony doors should be shut from the inside when children are alone at home. Parents must remove any object that facilitates children to climb up to the windowsills or balcony railings. He also urged officials at work sites to instruct workers to wear belts and safety dresses while performing their duties.
Officials are exerting tremendous efforts to introduce effective solutions to prevent such accidents, he said. "Despite our educational campaigns and publishing of tragic stories about children falling to death, some parents don't care and we still have cases of children falling from balconies."
Al Harmodi said there are cases where women and sometimes maids are sometimes locked in rooms by sponsors or human traffickers and they jump out of windows in a bid to escape.
At the same time, financial problems, losing jobs and mounting loans are reasons for suicide.
Deaths due to falls from high-rise buildings
> November 11, 2015: 57-year-old man dies after fall from the balcony of a high-rise building in Sharjah
> October 18, 2015: 32-year-old woman falls to death from third floor of a building in Sharjah's Al Majaz area
> October 24, 2015: 40-year-old Indian falls from sixth floor of an under-construction building in an industrial area in sharjah
>August 2015: Egyptian worker in his thirties falls to death from a building under renovation in the old Ras Al Khaimah area.
> July 2015: an unidentified man in his thirties dies on the spot after he falls from the sixth floor of a building in Al Gulaiha area in Sharjah.
> January 2015: 41-year-old Jordanian national falls from the 25th floor of residential building in Tecom.
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