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7 die after workshop ceiling collapse in E China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-04-03 18:53
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NANJING - Seven people were killed and one injured Friday morning after a workshop ceiling collapsed in east China's Jiangsu Province, local authorities said Saturday.
The ceiling of a workshop of China International Marine Containers Group (CIMC) in Jiangsu's Nantong City fell in at around 5:50 a.m., burying eight workers, said a spokesman with the municipal government.
Five people were rescued from the debris and sent to a local hospital, where four of them died. The injured was in a stable condition, he said.
The bodies of the three others were found at around 8 p.m., the spokesman said.
Nine people were doing interior construction work in the 10-meter high workshop of CIMC, a leading container manufacturer in China, when the accident occurred. One of them managed to escape.
The municipal government and police were jointly investigating the cause of the accident, he said.
