Thai worker dies in Taiwan collapse

Five people, including a Thai worker, were killed in Taiwan when a construction site collapsed outside Taipei, officials said on Monday.
Rescuers pulled the last of the bodies out from under tonnes of concrete in the early morning hours after the collapse of the site in Linko, a township in Taipei county, local officials said. One of the dead was from Thailand and another from Ghana, they said. Both were reportedly illegal workers. Another Ghanaian was injured. Construction work was halted as authorities launched an investigation. Agence France Presse
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