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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He said the rod fell on Kishan Kumar Rajak and pierced his neck.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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