10 workers dead, 17 injured in Thai building collapse
At least 10 workers died and 17 others were injured when a
large concrete beam collapsed Tuesday at a construction site just outside
Bangkok, police said.
Television footage showed rescue workers using sniffer dogs
and a digger to reach bodies stuck beneath large chunks of broken concrete and
twisted metal at the sprawling site in Samut Prakan province, which borders
Bangkok.
Two of the injured were in a critical condition in hospital,
according to provincial police.
"There are 10 dead and 17 injured who are in
hospital," police commander Thatchai Hongthong told AFP, revising down an
earlier toll of 11 dead.
Volunteer rescue teams scoured the building site for bodies
but by Tuesday afternoon had stopped their search.
"There were 40 workers on site at the time of the
collapse, now we have stopped searching as I'm confident we have retrieved all
of the bodies," said rescue worker Anyawut Pho-ampai.
Labour groups have warned about lax safety standards and low
wages at Thai construction sites, especially for migrant workers from Myanmar,
Cambodia and Laos, who are often paid below the country's minimum daily wage of
$9.2.
The nation has seen a building boom over recent years as the
property market has soared.
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