Bodies of 2 Bangladeshi workers buried at Malaysia site recovered
Bodies of two Bangladeshi workers have been recovered hours after they were trapped under collapsed scaffolding at a construction site in Petaling Jaya of Malaysia.
The recoveries were made separately at 10:24pm Wednesday and 1:10am Thursday (local time), Malaysian state news agency Bernama reported quoting Md Sani Harul, assistant director of Selangor Fire and Rescue.
They were identified as Md Suman Mollah, 30, of Shariatpur and Alamgir, 35, of Satkhira, Sayedul Islam, counsellor (Labour wing) at Bangladesh high commission in Kuala Lumpur, told The Daily Star this afternoon.
"The bodies were sent to the Serdang Hospital for a post mortem," he said adding that the bodies will be sent back home by the next week.
The counsellor was on way to going to the spot and after getting their passports details of the victims will be made available.
Post by Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat Subang Jaya.
Sani said the first floor where six workers were levelling wet concrete collapsed at 4:20pm, trapping the two workers who were on the ground floor at the LRT terminal construction site in Kampung Kuala Sungai Baru, Putra Heights.
Four of the six workers who fell along with the flooring were injured while two escaped unhurt, he said, adding that the injured workers were sent to the Putrajaya and Serdang hospitals.
Sani said the Selangor Fire and Rescue personnel called off the search-and-rescue operation after the second body was recovered early Thursday.
This is the second accident involving the LRT construction this year. In the first, on June 26, a man and a woman were injured when a steel beam fell on a car at Jalan Lapangan Terbang Subang.
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