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Six dead in east China scaffold collapse
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-01-13 10:01
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 Firefighters rescue workers who were buried after a scaffold collapse at a construction site in Wuhu city, east China's Anhui Province on Tuesday. The collapse left six workers dead, seven injured and two still buried until Tuesday night. [Photo/Xinhua] |
HEFEI - Death toll rose to six and another two were still buried after a scaffold and a concrete roof collapsed at a construction site in east China's Anhui Province Tuesday, said local authorities.
The six died after treatment failed. Another seven injured were being treated in hospital, said Zhang Min, an official of the publicity department of Wuhu municipal Party committee.
The accident happened at the construction site of Wuhu Huaqiang Culture and Technology Industrial Park at 11:50 a.m., at the end of the workers' morning shift.
A rescue operation was underway and police were investigating the cause of the accident.
The park, with a total investment of 2.5 billion yuan (366 million U.S. dollars) from Shenzhen Huaqiang Holdings Limited, is due to open on May 1.
