JABALPUR: A 64-year-old man was killed after a rod from a flex banner structure fell and pierced his neck in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur, an official said on Sunday.A contractual employee of the local civic body was fixing the flex banner structure in Allahabad Bank Chowk on Saturday when a rod fell on a pedestrian, Civil Line police station in-charge Nehru Khandate said.He said the rod fell on Kishan Kumar Rajak and pierced his neck.The man was taken to a hospital, where the doctors declared him dead, the official said, adding that a case has been registered and a probe is underway to find out if the employee had followed safety protocol.
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