Five dead after lift plunge in Hong Kong
skyscraper
HONG KONG (AFP) - - Five workers died on Sunday after
plunging more than a dozen floors down a lift shaft in Hong Kong's
tallest skyscraper and the fourth tallest building in the world,
police and local reports said.
A police spokesman said emergency workers called to the
International Commerce Centre in Kowloon's popular Tsim Sha Tsui
area removed three injured workers, who were all certified dead on
arrival at hospital.
Firemen later recovered the bodies of two other workers while
another was thought to be missing.
According to local broadcaster RTHK, the workers were believed
to have been working on a platform in a lift shaft on the 27th
floor when it suddenly gave way and fell to the 10th floor.
The 118-floor skyscraper, developed by MTR Corporation and Sun
Hung Kai Properties, is Hong Kong's tallest building and is due to
open next year.
It is the fourth tallest building in the world after the Burj in
Dubai, Taipei 101 in Taiwan and the Shanghai World Financial
Centre.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang described the accident as
serious and pledged to conduct a thorough investigation.
