Chinese workers are reported to have fled fearing attacks by locals after a under construction chimney at the plant collapsed on Wednesday, trapping many workers. So far, 40 mutilated bodies have been recovered.
The Chinese were employed in Korba by Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation that had bagged the contract by aluminium major Balco to construct two power plants of 600 MW each.
Later, SEPCO assigned to Gannon Dunkerley and Company Ltd the task of constructing a 275 meter high chimney for the power plant.
A top sources in the Korba district administration told IANS that "Chinese nationals numbering around 70 to 80 have left Korba town amid the rising death toll. The SEPCO office is found locked.”
The under construction chimney collapsed amid heavy rain and lightning Wednesday, trapping many workers underneath. More than 75 percent of the rubble is yet to be cleared. Police said that the death toll could rise as more people are feared trapped underneath.
The district administration source told IANS that police have alerted Mana airport authorities in Raipur to not allow any employees of SEPCO to leave Chhattisgarh as their help would be needed in a judicial probe ordered by the state government into the chimney crash.
(Sourced from http://www.steelguru.com/news/index/2009/09/29/MTEzNzAw/Update_on_BALCO_accident.html)
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