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SINGAPORE -- A reinforcement bar at the Fusionpolis building --
located in Ayer Rajah -- worksite caved in on Thursday afternoon.
Five people are missing and 15 casualties have reportedly been sent
to the National University Hospital, according to an eye witness
report.
1 dead, 15 hurt in Ayer Rajah building cave-in
SINGAPORE -- A basement cave-in at a construction site in Ayer
Rajah has left one person dead and five others missing. Fifteen
people who were hurt in the accident have reportedly been sent to
the National University Hospital.
The collapse happened just before 2pm at the worksite of the
Fusionpolis building and the MRT station at One-North. Engineers on
the site say this is the deepest construction site in Singapore and
that six or seven people may be trapped at the bottom.
The number of casulaties is currently unconfirmed. Some reports say
that two are dead and 17 people are injured.
This cave-in comes a week after a portion of the Nicoll Highway
collapsed, leaving four people dead. But this is an industrial
accident that is not related to last week's cave-in at the
underground site of the MRT Circle Line.
The Fusionpolis complex, which will house info-communications and
media firms when completed in 2005, forms part of the Jurong Town
Corporation's One-North development in Buona Vista.
Watch this space for more developments.
