A two-storey building has collapsed while workers
were trying to prop up the second floor during renovations in central China,
killing at least 17 construction workers and injuring 23, officials and reports
said Saturday.
The collapse happened on Friday afternoon in the
Wuyang county town of Beiwudu in Henan province, the county government said on
its website. Forty people were pulled from the debris by early on Saturday
morning, including 17 killed and 23 injured — nine of them in serious
condition, said authorities, and several people were taken into police custody.
Many of the victims were crushed by falling chunks
of the building, Wuyang People’s Hospital head Liu Jinshan said in an interview
with the state broadcaster CCTV.
“When the patients came and were sent into intensive
care unit, their injuries were really bad,” Liu said.
CCTV quoted a construction worker in hospital as
saying workers had been using a hoisting jack to push up a corner of first
floor of the two-storey building when the collapse happened. The building was
built in the 1990s, the broadcaster said.
A man at the Wuyang county government who declined
to be named confirmed details of the collapse when reached by telephone but
gave no further information. The cause of the collapse was under investigation,
he said.
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