Publication Date:
Sat, 2007-09-01 03:00
MADINAH, 1 September 2007 — Civil Defense officers rescued 173 people, including 150 workers, trapped in floodwaters here yesterday evening, a Civil Defense spokesman said.
The workers of different nationalities were stuck inside a project of the General Organization for Grain Silos and Flour Mills on Tabuk Road, north of Madinah. “We dispatched rescue teams, including divers, to the area,” said Khaled ibn Mubarak Al-Johani, the spokesman.
In the central region of the city, a woman was injured when scaffolding from a building fell on her. She was taken to hospital. Three cars were also damaged.
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