HANGZHOU, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Nine people have been
confirmed dead in a collapsed subway tunnel here in China's eastern Zhejiang
Province after another body was recovered on Thursday afternoon.
More than 400 rescuers were searching for another 12
missing, though experts said there was no chance of finding anyone alive.
The progress of clearing the silt in the collapsed
tunnel 16 meters below the surface has continued slowly, as the mud froze.
By Thursday, more than 6,000 cubic meters of silt
have been cleared.
The struggle to recover the remains followed the collapse
of a 75-m section of a subway tunnel under construction in the
provincial capital Hangzhou on Saturday afternoon.
Besides those dead or missing, 24 others were
injured. To date, 11 injured construction workers remain in hospital
More than 220 families of the victims have arrived in
Hangzhou to deal with the aftermath.
The Fourth Bureau of the China Civil Engineering
Group Co. Ltd(CCEG), the subway project contractor, has been working with the
social security and civil affairs department of Hangzhou to discuss compensation
with them.
The State Council Work Safety Committee said in a
report issued on Wednesday that poor government surveillance and poor
construction safety management were to blame for the accident.
In response, the Zhejiang provincial work safety
committee launched on Thursday a safety examination on major construction
projects across the province.
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Scrapers work at the site of the subway
tunnel collapse in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on Nov. 17,
2008. The incident happened at 3:20 p.m. when a 75-m section of a tunnel
under construction collapsed in Xiaoshan District, trapping about 50
workers and 11 vehicles. The cause of the collapse is being
investigated.(Xinhua Photo/Huang Shengang)
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HANGZHOU, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Two more bodies are
found in the rubble of a subway construction site collapse in eastern China,
bringing the death toll to seven. Rescuers are still searching for 14 others. Full story
