Who to Blame for Deadly Subway Tunnel Collapse?
A striking moment: Ye, a daily paid worker on the construction site, recalled what happened at the moment. “A BANG was heard shortly after some one crying ‘run! The steel bars are falling!”’, he described, “and soon the tunnel started to collapse from the south to north.” This collapse he recalled has dominated the Internet as a heated topic in these a few days, referred to as the most serious accident of subway construction ever in China. Hangzhou, a well-known tourism city in southern China, witnessed the accident. On 15, Nov, a 100-meters-long–50m-wide section of the subway tunnel under construction collapsed. Instantly, at least 20 workers were buried. Because the tunnel is right under an 8-lane-wide, riverside road in use, over 10 vehicles were trapped in as the roadway cracked open in a sudden. To make it worse, the river water mixed with silt poured in, which cut off many people’s way out. A 41-year-old worker recalled that a crane above was trying to lift people out of the crat
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