All 14 workers lost in tunnel flood in China confirmed dead

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The bodies of all 14 workers trapped when a tunnel under construction was flooded last week have been recovered, authorities in southern China ...

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A brief statement on the Zhuhai city government’s social media site gave no further information about the cause of the Jul 15 disaster or the deaths.The Shijingshan tunnel is a section of an expressway under construction that passes beneath a reservoir in the Guangdong province city that lies close to Hong Kong and Macao.

Work was hampered at times by carbon monoxide fumes from machinery being used in the tunnel as part of the operation. Zhuhai is a relatively wealthy coastal city at the mouth of the Pearl River delta, which is now being heavily developed for manufacturing and high-tech industries.

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