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| Indian police quiz Chinese over chimney collapse |
| 2009-09-29 |
| Indian police said on Sunday they were questioning Chinese engineers and site workers as part of investigations into how a power plant chimney collapsed, killing 41 people. China's Shandong Electric Power Construction was one of the firms contracted by Balco, a subsidiary of London-listed resources giant Vedanta, to build the electricity station in central Chhattisgarh state. Bad choice of subcontractor. "We are taking statements from the Chinese team on the chimney collapse," senior police officer Ratanlal Dangi told AFP by telephone. Eighty Chinese nationals have been involved in the construction of the plant, he said. "Some of them were preparing to leave the country so we requested the state and central governments to ensure they do not leave before investigations are complete," Dangi said, adding that no arrests had been made. Chinese project people leaving the country in such a timely fashion makes them persons of interest, alright. The partially built 275-metre (900-foot) chimney caved in on Wednesday, killing scores of Indian labourers and leaving many others badly injured under piles of debris. "We have gone through almost 95 percent of the rubble," said Ashok Agarwal, a Chhattisgarh state official. "We will continue our efforts to ensure no one is buried." According to Dangi, bad weather had been ruled out as a cause of the accident and police have registered a case of culpable homicide against Balco. "We are looking through their records, their tenders, what materials they were using to build the chimney, whether there were any design or implementation flaws," he said. Hint, check for excessive fly ash in the concrete mix. And check the mix design and the cracked cores, if they did any. Hundreds of rescue workers have been struggling to remove a huge pile of smashed concrete that covered the site where the chimney collapsed. On Thursday, a top union official told AFP he feared that more than 100 people had been killed, and a lack of formal records about the number of employees working at the scene has complicated rescue efforts. Construction site accidents are relatively common in India, where health and safety rules are routinely flouted. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #5 "Rebar? We don't need no steenking rebar!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-09-29 15:43 |
| #4 PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA CHALLENGE MOVES INDIA TO EXPECT THE WORSE, espec Year 2012 Chin attack agz India??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-09-29 03:04 |
| #3 WMF > MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: OVERSEAS CHINESE ARE BECOMING THE TARGETS OF DIRECT TERRORIST ATTACKS. One way to start a INDO-CHINESE WAR afore 2012??? OTOH SAME > JAPANESE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: DEVELOPMENT OF "EAST ASIAN COMMUNITY" [= EAUnion?] MAY TAKE 10-15 Years. IOW, to Year 2020-2025 which is weirdly and mysteriously, but only PC coincidentally, the same rough timeline where CHINA thinks A STRONG, NUKE-ARMED, MIL- and GEOPOL-RESURGENT JAPAN COULD POTENS THREATEN ITS RISE TO SUPERPOWER STATUS??? OOOOOOOOPPPPPSIES trifecta in play. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-09-29 02:54 |
| #2 Hard to say - the Chinese usually reserve their shoddiest crap for their own people, who they know won't complain. Not necessarily their fault. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-09-29 02:46 |
| #1 "Some are preparing to leave the country" > wehell, as per PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS "leave" is more like "ESCAPE" as Chin workers are repor FLEEING FROM INDIAN POLICE + INVESTIGATORS??? OTOH SAME/BHARAT RAKSHAK > CHINESE SHUN PAKISTANI EXODUS. + CHINESE TROOPS OFFER AFGHAN SOLUTION. Instead of leaving strife-torn PAKISTAN, CHINA is actually intensifying its local investments + bilateral cooper ventures. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-09-29 02:22 |