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Two of the dead workers are still trapped under the rubble of
the structure that collapsed on Wednesday night in the Vung Ang
economic zone of Ha Tinh province. All the victims are
Vietnamese, state-run Vietnam Television (VTV) said.
Rescuers were working urgently to help the victims, Deputy
Chairman Dang Quoc Khanh of the provincial People's Committee
said in the broadcast.
Many of the injured were in hospital in critical condition, VTV
said. It showed pictures of rescue workers digging through the
rubble of the collapsed steel structure.
The accident happened at a seaport project that is part of a
complex owned by Taiwan's Formosa group. The workers are from a
Vietnamese sub-contractor hired by Samsung C&T Corp <000830.KS>,
a unit of South Korea's Samsung Group, the state-run Thanh Nien
newspaper said.
"At the construction site, there were thousands of workers, so
the number of workers in distress is not yet accurately
calculated," Pham Tran De, deputy head of the zone’s management
board told the online VnExpress newspaper.
The incident was the latest setback for the Vung Ang economic
zone, which was hit by rioting and arson attacks on facilities
employing Chinese workers last year, as anti-China sentiment
erupted in the wake of a maritime territorial row.
(Reporting by Mai Nguyen and Ho Binh Minh; Editing by Paul Tait)
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