Ten people have been confirmed dead in a barn collapse accident
that occurred on April 1 in Tengzhou City of east China's Shandong Province, local government sources
said Thursday.
The barn with steel structure was owned by a starch plant of
Dongguo Town in the city, which collapsed at around 12:00?AM
last Saturday, burying 13 workers.
As of 8:00?AM Thursday, ten of them were confirmed dead
after emergency rescue treatment failed. And three others survived
and were out of life danger, according to the local government.
Officials of the provincial administration of work safety rushed
to the accident site to deal with the rescue and compensation
affairs. Investigation into the cause of the collapse is
underway.
(Xinhua News Agency April 7, 2006)
