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Two die in Bangkok shopping mall mishap
AP
Published Oct 29 2010
A construction scaffold collapsed at a luxury Bangkok shopping mall Friday and dumped steel and cement onto a work crew below, killing two and injuring six, police said. The accident occurred in an area being rebuilt after the CentralWorld shopping complex was set on fire as the military cracked down on anti-government protests in May.
Part of the complex reopened in September, but the accident took place in an area still closed to the public. An initial investigation indicated that the workers were renovating a ground-level area when a support structure for a cement floor overhead collapsed, said police Maj. Gen. Sumeth Ruangsawat.
"The steel pillars all of a sudden could not support the floor above anymore and fell down on the workers," Sumeth said, adding that the upper floor was 5 or 6 meters (16 feet or 20 feet) above them. One of the six workers taken to a hospital was severely hurt, police Maj. Gen. Amnuay Nimmano said. CentralWorld issued a statement offering condolences and pledging to cooperate with an investigation. - AP
