By NNN-PTI,
Dubai : Six Indian workers are feared dead after a ceiling in an under-construction hotel collapsed on them, media reports said.
The workers had gone to plug a leakage in the concrete ceiling of the basement of the hotel, which is located in Ajman emirate of the UAE yesterday.
One body was recovered by police about 16 hours after the accident which happened early last morning. By the time of recovery of the body, the concrete had hardened and had to be drilled out piece by piece.
A report in ‘Gulf News’ today said all the victims were Indian workers of Seidco General Contracting which was building the Laguna Beach Hotel on the Corniche Road in Ajman.
The police had, however, not identified workers nationalities..
The police were questioning the site engineer, a consultant and two others, reports said.
Construction of the hotel was stopped twice earlier and work had been going on intermittently over the past two years, workers said.
Rescue workers could not get the bodies out of the basement of the hotel under construction and had first deployed a crane which failed to lift the concrete.