- Title: SINGAPORE: ONE PERSON DEAD AND 28 INJURED IN ACCIDENT ON OFFICE BUILDING SITE
- Date: 29th April 2004
- Summary: (W4) SINGAPORE (APRIL 29, 2004) (REUTERS) WIDE OF WORKERS AT ACCIDENT SCENE AT CONSTRUCTION SITE VARIOUS OF WORKERS REMOVING COLLAPSED STEEL RODS SLV POLICEMAN STANDING IN FRONT OF EMPTY STRETCHERS SLV POLICE AND WORKERS AT SCENE SLV MORE OF POLICE AROUND VICINITY SCU SOUNDBITE (English) COLONEL SUBHAS, CIVIL DEFENCE SPOKESMAN SAYING: "Our disaster assistance and rescue team is currently spearheading the operation and is very much on top of the situation. Right now ,we know the status of the casualties as follows. There have been 28 people who have been injured, now these people have been brought to three different hospitals" CUTAWAY OF ACCIDENT SCU SOUNDBITE (English) SUBHAS SAYING: "We have one person who has been declared dead at the scene, now there was one other person who was trapped below the rubble site, sorry below the construction site accident and a short while ago, we have rescued this person alive." SLV CIVIL DEFENCE VAN WIDE OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS SEATED SLV DOCTOR STANDING IN FRONT OF STRETCHERS SLV CIVIL DEFENCE TEAM
- Embargoed: 14th May 2004 13:00
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- Location: SINGAPORE
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- Country: Singapore
- Topics: Crime,Accidents,General
- Reuters ID: LVA5RKXNP2WXM0HRL2JB85K0KU1F
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- Story Text: One dead, one trapped and 28 injured in Singapore construction accident.
At least one person was killed and twenty-eight were injured after a steel girder collapsed into a thirty-metre deep basement of an office building under construction in Singapore, the city's Civil Defence Force said on Thursday (April 29).
Emergency workers at the site were using sniffer dogs to search for survivors on the site where the government is building a life sciences hub in western Singapore.
"Our disaster assistance and rescue team is currently spearheading the operation and is very much on top of the situation. Right now ,we know the status of the casualties as follows. There have been 28 people who have been injured, now these people have been brought to three different hospitals," said Colonel Subhas of the Civil Defence.
"We have one person who has been declared dead at the scene, now there was one other person who was trapped below the rubble site, sorry below the construction site accident and a short while ago, we have rescued this person alive,"
added Subhas.
He could not confirm how many people were still trapped.
The construction of a government building with a six-storey basement was underway when the accident took place.
The accident comes barely a week after one of Singapore's main highways collapsed, leaving four people dead. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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