By Cuu Long  March 15, 2019 | 02:57 pm GMT+7 Police officers and rescue forces check a wall collapse site in Vinh Long Province, March 15, 2019. Photo by VnExpress/Cuu Long Five workers died and four were injured Friday after a wall at a construction site in Vinh Long collapsed suddenly. The accident in the Mekong Delta province took place at around 10 a.m. at the construction site of a garment factory in the Hoa Phu Industrial Zone, Long Ho District. Dozens of workers were trapped under the rubble when the wall crumbled. Rescue forces, including police personnel, were dispatched to the accident site. It took them more than an hour to get the victims out. At around 11 a.m., the bodies of five workers had been taken out and four others were taken to the local hospital for emergency treatment, local authorities confirmed Friday afternoon. Rescue forces are still looking for missing workers, they said. An investigation had been launched to establish the cause of … [Read more...] about Five dead in Vietnam wall collapse, search on for missing workers
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Tourists flee after wall collapses
A wall collapsed at a house in Hà Nội’s Lê Thái Tổ Street. – VNS Photo Chi LanViet Nam News HÀ NỘI –Residents and tourists were left in a state of panic Saturday afternoon after a wall of a house collapsed close to Hoàn Kiếm Lake. Miraculously no one was injured after the incident around 2.30pm. Tourists were forced to flee after the wall of a house on 32 Lý Thái Tổ Street suddenly gave way sending bricks and rubble scattering into the road. Scores of police officers and firefighters were sent to the scene and the area has been cordoned off while officials ensure its safety. Residents say the reason for the collapse was because of construction work being carried out in the vicinity, although police are investigating the cause of the incident. – VNS … [Read more...] about Tourists flee after wall collapses
Wall collapse kills 23 during wedding celebration in India
Twenty-three people were killed and 30 injured in India when a wall collapsed on a crowd of people celebrating a wedding, police said on Thursday. The 12-foot (3.6-metre) high wall collapsed late on Wednesday because of heavy rain, crashing down on the wedding party during dinner in a marriage hall in the western state of Rajasthan, police official Bharat Lal Meena said. Five children were among the dead, Meena said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a Twitter post he was pained by the accident. Weddings are elaborate affairs in India with even people of modest income inviting large numbers of guests to receptions, often in purpose-built halls. Source: Reuters … [Read more...] about Wall collapse kills 23 during wedding celebration in India
Wall collapse kills 24 at Indian wedding: police
JAIPUR, India — A wall collapsed during a wedding party in western India late Wednesday, killing 24 people including four children, police said. Guests had taken shelter from a storm under a tin shack that adjoined the wall when it collapsed, local police officer Anil Tank said. Another 26 were injured, 15 of them seriously. "The wall and a tin shed attached to it at the marriage venue collapsed due to a storm," said Tank, superintendent of police in Bharatpur, the district of Rajasthan state where the disaster occurred. The Press Trust of India news agency said there were food stalls set up along the wall for the wedding. — AFP … [Read more...] about Wall collapse kills 24 at Indian wedding: police
Four Vietnamese children killed in wall collapse
Four children aged between 9 and 12 in a mountainous area in the central province of Thanh Hoa were killed when a wall at an excavation site collapsed on them on Saturday. Bui Thi Lan, a local woman in Ram village in Quang Trung commune, hired an excavator that morning to dig up earth on her land to build a new house to run a shop, according to Pham Hung Thu, deputy chairman of Ngoc Lac District. Thu said the deadly incident occurred as the four children sat under the shadow of a wall to avoid the sun. But the wall accidentally collapsed and immediately killed two of them. The two others died on the way to hospital. It is believed that the wall collapsed because its base weakened after the sand underneath was excavated. Families of the dead victims were given a financial assistance of VND4.5 million (US$213) each to arrange funeral services for them. Further investigations into this care are underway. … [Read more...] about Four Vietnamese children killed in wall collapse