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Death toll rises to 7 in E China subway tunnel collapse

Source: News - November 17th, 2008

Two more bodies of missing workers were found on Monday afternoon, bringing the death toll in Saturday’s collapse at a subway construction site in east China’s Zhejiang Province to seven.

Rescuers extricated another body earlier in the day, and the death toll was expected to rise as the search for 14 other missing workers continues.

The incident happened at 3:20 p.m. when a 75-m section of a tunnel under construction collapsed in Xiaoshan District, trapping about 50 workers

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