At least 40 people were killed in a scaffolding collapse yesterday at a construction site in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, state media reported. A work platform at a power plant cooling tower being built in the city of Fengcheng came tumbling down, an official with the local Work Safety Administration said by telephone. He put the confirmed death toll at 22 but the official Xinhua News Agency said that figure had risen to at least 40 within hours. Xinhua did not cite its source for the information and calls to local government information offices rang unanswered. Television footage and photographs from the site showed iron pipes and wooden planks strewn across the floor of the massive concrete cooling tower.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 24, 2016 16:09 UTC