Rescue workers search for survivors at subway line construction site.
By Bibek Bhandari
At least eight people have died and three are missing after a road collapsed at a construction site in southern China’s Guangdong province, Sixth Tone’s sister publication The Paper reported Thursday.
The accident occurred at the under-construction No. 2 subway line in the city of Foshan on Wednesday evening. Video footage obtained by The Paper shows a large section of the street reduced to rubble, with several large cracks visible along the blacktop. Thirty meters of the street caved in after workers were unable to contain water leakage in the unfinished tunnel, the city’s publicity department said in a statement Thursday.
Nine people were immediately rescued from the site and rushed to the hospital, where they are now in stable condition, The Paper reported.
As of Thursday morning, efforts to locate and rescue survivors were still underway. The accident site has been temporarily cordoned off, and traffic in the area has been rerouted, according to the local police.
The Chinese government has been ramping up initiatives to build public transport systems in smaller cities. Foshan, located around 33 kilometers from Guangzhou, opened its first subway line in 2010, and is in the process of adding new lines to its existing 34.4 kilometers of track. The city plans to complete its second line later this year, and to have at least nine lines by 2022.
Contributions: Qian Zhecheng; editor: David Paulk.
(Header image: An aerial view of the collapsed road in Foshan, Guangdong province, Feb. 8, 2018. Xinhua)
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