Dozens of workers dead in China power plant collapse
Source: The Guardian
Dozens of workers dead in China power plant collapse
One worker reportedly still trapped after construction platform in cooling tower fell in eastern province of Jiangxi
Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong
Thursday 24 November 2016 06.13 GMT Last modified on Thursday 24 November 2016 10.07 GMT
At least 67 people were killed in China after a platform in an unfinished power plant cooling tower collapsed, the latest industrial accident in a country plagued by chronic workplace tragedies. One worker remains trapped hours after the platform collapsed at 7am local time in the eastern province of Jiangxi, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Two more people were injured. There were 68 workers on the scaffolding at the time of the accident, local media reported.
Photos and video of the site showed orange and black-clad rescue workers sifting through iron pipes and debris covering the floor of the cooling tower. A head of mangled metal lay at the centre of the tower, as more than 200 rescue personnel were on site, according to the local fire department.
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