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.
Malaysian state news agency Bernama reported quoting Md Sani Harul, assistant director of Selangor Fire and
Rescue, that the bodies were recovered separately at 10:24pm Wednesday and 1:10am Thursday.
The man recovered Wednesday has been identified as Md Suman Mollah, in the 30s.
Talking with The Daily Star, Sayedul Islam, counsellor (Labour wing) at Bangladesh high commission there, identified the other victim as Alamgir, 35. “The bodies were sent to the Serdang Hospital for a post mortem,” the fire service official said.
The counsellor was on way to going to the spot and after getting their passports details of the victims will be made available.
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.