Death toll rises to nine in E China subway tunnel collapse

HANGZHOU, Nov. 20 (Chinese media) -- Nine people have been

confirmed dead in a collapsed subway tunnel here in China's eastern Zhejiang

Province after another body was recovered on Thursday afternoon.

More than 400 rescuers were searching for another 12

missing, though experts said there was no chance of finding anyone alive.

The progress of clearing the silt in the collapsed

tunnel 16 meters below the surface has continued slowly, as the mud froze.

By Thursday, more than 6,000 cubic meters of silt

have been cleared.

The struggle to recover the remains followed the collapse

of a 75-m section of a subway tunnel under construction in the

provincial capital Hangzhou on Saturday afternoon.

Besides those dead or missing, 24 others were

injured. To date, 11 injured construction workers remain in hospital

More than 220 families of the victims have arrived in

Hangzhou to deal with the aftermath.

The Fourth Bureau of the China Civil Engineering

Group Co. Ltd(CCEG), the subway project contractor, has been working with the

social security and civil affairs department of Hangzhou to discuss compensation

with them.

The State Council Work Safety Committee said in a

report issued on Wednesday that poor government surveillance and poor

construction safety management were to blame for the accident.

In response, the Zhejiang provincial work safety

committee launched on Thursday a safety examination on major construction

projects across the province.

Subway tunnel collapse traps at least

50 in east China

HANGZHOU,

Nov. 15 (Chinese media) -- At least 50 people are trapped underground after a road

caved in on a subway tunnel under construction in the eastern Chinese city of

Hangzhou on Saturday, rescuers said. Full story

Death toll rises to seven in E China

subway tunnel collapse

Scrapers work at the site of the subway

tunnel collapse in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on Nov. 17,

2008. The incident happened at 3:20 p.m. when a 75-m section of a tunnel

under construction collapsed in Xiaoshan District, trapping about 50

workers and 11 vehicles. The cause of the collapse is being

investigated.(Chinese media Photo/Huang Shengang)
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HANGZHOU, Nov. 17 (Chinese media) -- Two more bodies are

found in the rubble of a subway construction site collapse in eastern China,

bringing the death toll to seven. Rescuers are still searching for 14 others. Full story