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China Power Station Collapse Kills At Least 40 - Reports

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The death toll from the collapse of a cooling tower at an electric power plant construction site in China’s Jiangxi province has reached 40, Xinhua news agency... 24.11.2016, Sputnik International

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China Power Station Collapse Kills At Least 40 - Reports

04:16 GMT 24.11.2016 (Updated: 04:58 GMT 24.11.2016)

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The death toll from the collapse of a cooling tower at an electric power plant construction site in China’s Jiangxi province has reached 40, Xinhua news agency reported.

The collapse occurred in the city of Fengcheng, in the southeastern Chinese province of Jiangxi at around 7 a. m. local time on Thursday (23:00 GMT on Wednesday), the Fengcheng safety supervision bureau said.

#BREAKING: A collapsed cooling tower of a pwer plant, which is under construction, has claimed more than 40 lives in E China's Jiangxi pic.twitter.com/NfpTnan6sO
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) 24 ноября 2016 г.

It was earlier reported that 22 people were killed and two others were injured.