Worker crushed to death in construction accident

QUẢNG TRỊ — A construction worker in the central province of Quảng Trị died after a one tonne concrete pipe fell on him yesterday.

The victim was identified as Lê Văn Đức, 43, a resident of Hà Tĩnh Province, the Dân Trí online newspaper reported.

Đức was working to install drainage systems at a construction site, located north of the Hiếu River in Đông Hà City, when the cables lifting the concrete pipe onto a crane broke. — VNS