Two workers were killed in a deadly underground scaffolding collapse at the Downtown Line Bugis Station worksite this morning.
Both bodies were found after a search that took more than five hours from the time the accident took place at about 6.50am. The first body was found at 10.40am, and has been extricated, while the second - a metre away from the first - was found at 12.45pm and extricated at 4.05pm.
Two dead in accident at Bugis Downtown Line MRT construction site
Two construction workers died after an underground scaffolding collapsed at the construction site for the Downtown Line at the junction of Victoria Street and Rochor Road.
Another eight workers suffered minor injuries and were sent to Raffles Hospital before the SCDF arrived. Four have since been discharged.
The LTA has since suspended all construction work at all other downtown lines and engineers have been told to check the scaffolding at all other sites before resuming work.
8 injured, 2 missing in MRT construction site incident
A 4m-high scaffolding collapsed at the new Downtown Line (DTL) Bugis MRT station this morning, injuring eight workers. Two others are still missing.
The Land Transport Authority said that the temporary scaffolding gave way at about 6.50am.
The eight injured workers, who were working on top of the structure when it collapsed, were sent to the nearby Raffles Hospital.
One worker has since been discharged.
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