Accident: Shipyard workers’ bodies reach K-P
Fires and accidents are known to be common in the ship-breaking yard.
SHERGARH:
The bodies of three labourers who were killed while working in the Gadani ship-breaking yard on the Balochistan coast on Friday were received by their relatives in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). A large piece of scrap metal fell on the working labourers killing three instantly. Fires and accidents are known to be common in the ship-breaking yard, where workers extract metals, steel pipes, electricity cables, machinery and wood from derelict ships.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 23rd, 2012.
The bodies of three labourers who were killed while working in the Gadani ship-breaking yard on the Balochistan coast on Friday were received by their relatives in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). A large piece of scrap metal fell on the working labourers killing three instantly. Fires and accidents are known to be common in the ship-breaking yard, where workers extract metals, steel pipes, electricity cables, machinery and wood from derelict ships.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 23rd, 2012.