DUBAI, 13 February 2004 — Six expatriate workers were killed and the same number injured when a one-story building under construction collapsed in the United Arab Emirates yesterday, police said.
“Six people were killed and their bodies are being removed from the rubble,” Maj. Abdulrahman Saho said, adding that they were Indian and Pakistani nationals.
He said 12 workers out of 33 on site had been inside the building when it collapsed in Sharjah, one of the emirates that make up the UAE. Six were injured and taken to hospital.
In 2002, at least five workers from Egypt, Pakistan and India were killed when the roof of a building they were constructing caved in on them in Sharjah.
Expatriates, mainly from Asian and Arab countries, form the bulk of the workforce in the Gulf Arab state. More than 30 expatriate workers on a visa change trip were killed when an Iranian airliner crashed near Sharjah on Tuesday.
