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1st LD: Dozens killed, injured in central Vietnam's iron, steel construction site

Xinhua, March 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

Dozens were killed and injured in an incident in Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation (FHS) construction site in central Vietnam on Wednesday night, Vietnam's state-run news agency VNA reported on Thursday.

At around 20:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday, a scaffold collapsed in Vung Ang port construction site, part of FHS huge iron and steel project in Ky Anh district, Ha Tinh Province, some 350 km south of capital Hanoi.

According to initial information, 12 have been killed while more than 20 injured people were rushed to local hospital for emergency treatment, VNA said. Endi