At least 67 people were killed in China after a platform in an unfinished power plant cooling tower collapsed, the latest industrial accident in a country plagued by chronic workplace tragedies. One worker remains trapped hours after the platform collapsed at 7am local time in the eastern province of Jiangxi, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Some workers remained trapped hours after a work platform collapsed at the Fengcheng power plant. Photograph: APThe cooling tower is part of a $1.1bn coal-fired power plant that was set to be completed in 2018. A pipeline explosion at a coal-fired power plant killed 21 in August.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2016 06:13 UTC