2 killed, others trapped in Saudi construction collapse
(Nigeria) Two workers were killed, 14 injured and at least
three were still trapped after a convention centre collapsed during
construction in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the Red Crescent said.
Medics were initially told that about 50 workers were caught
under concrete in the site at a university in Qassim, northwest of the capital
Riyadh, reports AFP.
But they found "two persons dead" and took six
others with serious injuries to hospital, a spokesman for the Saudi Red
Crescent Authority said.
Eight others were slightly hurt and between three to six
others were believed still trapped, he said.
Bandar al-Roshodi, the university spokesman, told Saudi
television news channel Al-Ekhbariya that the workers on the site were mostly
from Pakistan.
"Until now we are searching," he later said.
The trapped workers were of "different
nationalities," Roshodi said. Asked about the chances of more survivors,
he said: "We have hope, God willing."
Pictures from the scene showed a sprawling but low-level
construction site, where many steel support rods had collapsed along with other
parts of the structure inside a wide circular area.
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