Posted on 03/29/2007 11:31:11 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
BEIJING (AP) -
Rescuers are trying to reach six workers trapped underground after a subway construction site for the 2008 Beijing Olympics collapsed, but hopes for their survival are slim, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.
The accident occurred Wednesday morning on the No. 10 line, which runs through the main Olympics compound in northwest Beijing, Xinhua said.
The collapsed section covers an area of about 215 square feet and is about 36 feet deep, it said.
Debris has been cleared away and rescuers were trying to reach the missing workers, but experts fear there is little chance they have survived, the report said without giving further details.
Calls to the city government, Communist Party office and the China Railway 12th Bureau Group Co. Ltd., the stated-owned construction company overseeing the work, rang unanswered Thursday.
The cause of the collapse is under investigation, Xinhua said.
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Calls to the city government, Communist Party office and the China Railway 12th Bureau Group Co. Ltd., the stated-owned construction company overseeing the work, rang unanswered Thursday.
Prayers for the workers. This could have happened anywhere.
Someone is going to be working in the rice paddies-or worse.
I bet they had world class safety features in place to protect the workmen ..... NOT!
Those Olympics ought to be pretty interesting. Get a load of this: http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/196643
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