Workers killed as elevator plummets 34 floors to ground

Nineteen workers at a construction site in Wuhan, Hubei province, died on Thursday after the elevator they were using fell 100 meters to the ground. The tragedy happened around 1 pm when 19 painters at the construction site of Donghujingyuan, a residential real estate project, were taking an elevator, according to the local fire department. A malfunction occurred as the elevator was going up and it began to accelerate, local media reported.

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