Two more bodies found buried at MRT construction site
The Star Online, 19 August 2014
PETALING JAYA: The Fire and Rescue Department has found two more bodies buried at an MRT construction site in Kota Damansara following the collapse of a 300-tonne concrete span on Monday night.
Selangor FRD assistant director of operations Mohd Sani Harul said the bodies of Bangladeshi construction workers - Mohamed Faruk Khan and Mohammad Alauddin Mollik - were found at 1.35pm, Tuesday.
"The two bodies were taken to the Sungai Buloh Hospital for post-mortem," he said when contacted by Bernama.
The body of another Bangladeshi construction worker, Mohammad Elahi Hossain, was found by the search and rescue team at 2.30am and was taken to the same hospital.
A section of the MRT guideway dislodged from its piers and fell to the ground below at 8.30pm, Monday.
The incident occurred while work to construct the parapet for the guideway was being carried out.
The section termed a span, made up of 14 units of segmented box girders, is 38m in length and weighs 300 tonnes.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had expressed shock over the incident in his Twitter page and called for an immediate investigation.
