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China subway tunnel collapse kills 3
At least three people were killed and 17 more were trapped when a subway tunnel in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou collapsed, state media reported on Sunday.
- Agencies
- Published: 08:54 November 16, 2008
Beijing: At least three people were killed and 17 more were trapped when a subway tunnel in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou collapsed, state media reported on Sunday.
Workers building the new metro system scrambled to escape the slow cave-in on Saturday.
"Lots of workers immediately rushed to the hoist to be lifted above ground," said Zhu Juzhong, a worker.
"Some colleagues who moved slowly were buried," the official Xinhua news agency quoted him as saying.
Of the three dead, one was a worker and one was a taxi passenger. The third has not been identified, the report said.
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