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China construction lift collapses killing 12

A construction lift plummeted to the ground at a real estate development in eastern China, killing 12 workers, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. The accident, in coastal Fujian province, follows a string of lethal construction accidents in China this month.

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  • Published: 08:43 October 30, 2008
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Beijing: A construction lift plummeted to the ground at a real estate development in eastern China, killing 12 workers, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. The accident, in coastal Fujian province, follows a string of lethal construction accidents in China this month.

Eleven workers were killed and 12 injured on Tuesday when the steel cable lifting a crane container snapped at a bridge construction site in southwest China.

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