Witnesses say the accident occurred at around 5: 00 PM and
dozens of construction workers were buried under the collapsed
scaffold and ruins of the wall. Three of them died on the spot and
two others died later in hospital.
The injured workers are still being treated at local
hospitals.
The collapsed wall belongs to a workshop under construction in
Jiubi village, Lingshan township of Panyu county in the southern
suburbs of Guangzhou. More than 70 workers were at the site, mostly
migrant laborers from Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces and the
Chongqing municipality.
Investigation is going on and Lin Yuanhe, vice mayor of the
provincial capital of Guangzhou, is at the site coordinating the
rescue work.
(Xinhua News Agency April 10, 2005)