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Sue Ng

Authorities in southwest China are investigating a crane collapse at a construction site that killed one person and injured another.
The crane collapsed in Chengdu, Sichuan province, at around 7pm on Wednesday, falling onto a car parked near the site and killing the driver, the city’s urban renewal authority said in an online statement. A pedestrian also suffered minor injuries, it said.
Police were investigating the cause of the incident.

Photos and footage posted online showed emergency workers and others trying to move the crane off of a white car.
Shanghai-based news outlet ThePaper.cn quoted a witness as saying that the crane fell through the construction site wall and a number of trees.
By 10pm, the car had been towed away and the road reopened for use, according to reports.
In January, four people were killed and one was injured when a crane collapsed in Changsha, Hunan province, state news agency Xinhua reported.


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One dead in construction site crane collapse in southwest China

A motorist was killed when a construction crane collapsed in Chengdu on Wednesday. Photo: Weibo

=== PHOTO CAPTURED FROM WEIBO === A fatal crane accident at a construction site in Southwest China killed one person and injured a pedestrian earlier this week, the local authority said on Wednesday.The accident happened in Zong Fu Lu in Sichuan province on Wednesday at around 7pm, a crane collapsed and smashed into a car parked near the construction site. It caused the death of driver and a pedestrian with minor injury, the local Urban Renewal Bureau said on Twitter-like Weibo platform. Terrifying footage and pictures show a huge construction crane suddenly fallen back, snapped in half before crashing down to the ground. The craneÕs arm broke through the wall from the neighbouring work site, destroying the trees and smashed a white car to Òseriously deformedÓ, a witness surnamed Zhang told The Paper.WEIBO

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Two workers were killed in a construction site landslide in Hunan province on Wednesday. Photo: Screenshot from iQIYI

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Three workers died when the ground gave way at the construction site. Photo: Weibo

The scene of accident after a collapse. The project's foundation collapsed at a site managed by China Vanka, in the MInghang district in the middle of Shanghai, three construction workers were crushed by the collapse and later died. Photo: weibo

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Relatives of workers who were killed when a platform collapsed in the cooling tower of a power station burn paper money as they grieve outside the scene of the accident in Fengcheng in China's Jiangxi province on November 26, 2016. Chinese authorities have detained 13 people in connection with a construction collapse at the power station which killed at least 74 people, state media said on November 25, the latest industrial accident in the country. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT

Workers carry a body on a stretcher from the remains of a collapsed platform in a cooling tower at a power station at Fengcheng in China's Jiangxi province on November 24, 2016. The death toll from a collapse at a power station under construction in China rose to 74, state media said on November 25, as online commenters expressed outrage over the country's latest industrial accident. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT

One dead in construction site crane collapse in southwest China

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Tower falls on car outside the Chengdu worksite, killing motorist