9 killed, 6 injured in central China scaffold collapse

Nine people were killed and six injured when a section of scaffolding collapsed Monday in central China’s Hubei Province, the local government said Friday.

It took the emergency services 59 hours to rescue all the trapped workers, the last was found Thursday. All the injured are receiving hospital treatment, the Macheng city government announced.

The accident occurred at an amusement park construction site in Macheng city at 2:35 p.m. Monday.

Nine people are in police custody.

The provincial safety production supervision authority has sent a work team to the city to investigate the incident.