PHUKET: Three Burmese workers - all young women - were crushed to death when a wall being erected to prevent earth slips collapsed on them in eastern Phuket today.
The workers died at Ao Yon on a heavily sloping site where a new resort is being built.
Fellow workers were crying over their deaths as the young women's bodies were laid out and covered with sheets.
Killed were Nu, 25, Mo, 19, and May, 18. Other workers said the wall collapse came at the site of the Crystal Wild Resort, which is due to open later this year.
The resort is on a hill near the Khao Kad viewpoint lookout between Cape Panwa and Chalong. A fourth worker was injured and taken to hospital.
Authorities have just issued a major alert for potential land slips and floods, but the deaths today were unconnected with the severe weather forecast for the next few days.
The workers died at Ao Yon on a heavily sloping site where a new resort is being built.
Fellow workers were crying over their deaths as the young women's bodies were laid out and covered with sheets.
Killed were Nu, 25, Mo, 19, and May, 18. Other workers said the wall collapse came at the site of the Crystal Wild Resort, which is due to open later this year.
The resort is on a hill near the Khao Kad viewpoint lookout between Cape Panwa and Chalong. A fourth worker was injured and taken to hospital.
Authorities have just issued a major alert for potential land slips and floods, but the deaths today were unconnected with the severe weather forecast for the next few days.
Sorry to hear about yet more Burmese deaths.
2 things
1. You should only build `ornamental' type retaining walls out of brick. Substantial civil construction such as this should be out of reinforced concrete.
2. Let's home the General looks at it. It is on a gradient greater than 30 degrees.
Posted by Mr Man on June 10, 2014 18:02
Editor Comment:
Actually it's one for the local authorities. Someone needs to be made responsible for the deaths of three young women. In the 'New Phuket' there are no excuses.