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.
Both victims were male. One, surnamed Fang, was from
Chun'an county of Zhejiang. The other man is yet to be identified.
Between 400-500 rescuers are looking for 14 people
still trapped after a 75-meter section of subway tunnel collapsed Saturday
afternoon. The section was under construction in the Xiaoshan District of the
Zhejiang Province.
Hope to find the missing still alive is diminishing.
"It (the mire) could be as deep as seven meters,"
said Yang Zhongjie, an expert with the rescue team. Yang added that water in the
pit was drained Sunday but there were still as many as 20,000 cubic meters of
mire to be cleared.
The collapse injured 24 people, all of whom were
initially hospitalized. So far, eleven have been discharged.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.
Rescuers carry the body of a victim of the subway tunnel collapse onto the ground in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on Nov. 17, 2008. Two more bodies of missing workers were found on Monday afternoon, bringing the death toll in Saturday's collapse at a subway construction site in Zhejiang Province to seven. 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. (Chinese media PhotoHuang Shengang)
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Rescuers work at the collapsed road where a subway tunnel was under construction in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 15, 2008. At least one person is dead and 16 are missing and 13 vehicles were also trapped after the road caved in on a subway tunnel under construction in Hangzhou on Saturday. (Chinese media/Tan Jin)
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