Beijing: A two-story 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.
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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