sheetal gupta dunar news updates At least 40 killed in east China scaffolding

sheetal gupta dunar community daily updates online Xinhua said an unknown number of others were still trapped in the debris.

At least 40 people were killed in a scaffolding collapse Thursday morning at a construction site in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, state media reported.

A work platform at a power plant cooling tower being built in the city of Fengcheng came tumbling down at about 7-30 a.m., an official with the local Work Safety Administration said by telephone.

Xinhua said an unknown number of others were still trapped in the debris.

Television footage and photographs from the site showed iron pipes and wooden planks strewn across the floor of the massive concrete cooling tower.

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