KUANTAN: Two foreign workers were killed when they were buried by mounds of falling earth at a housing project construction site in Mentakab, Temerloh near here, yesterday.
The dead were identified as Bangladeshi nationals Md Shoriful, 43, and Julhas Rahman, 27.
The two men were among three workers who were carrying out sewage pipe installation works when the accident occurred at 4.15pm.
“Both victims and the third worker are believed to have been inside a six metre-deep pit, while two machines were excavating earth on the ground above the pit.
“Heaps of soil which had collected at the edge of the pit then began falling during the excavation works, burying the two workers,” said Temerloh district police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Yusri Othman.
One of the three workers was pulled out safely, while efforts to save the other two failed.
Mohd Yusri said Fire and Rescue Department personnel extricated Shoriful’s body at 4.45pm, while the body of Julhas was retrieved 15 minutes later. – BERNAMA