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5 killed in east China scaffold collapse

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-10-20 21:51

NANJING: Five workers were killed and another was slightly injured at a construction site in east China's Jiangsu Province on Tuesday after a scaffold collapsed, local police said.

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The accident occurred at 5:10 am in Jiawang District in Xuzhou City at the construction site of the Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway.

Police are investigating the cause of the accident.