CAMP GEN. ALEJO SANTOS, Bulacan-Two construction workers were killed while three orhers were seriously injured after a portion in a building they are constructing collapsed on Friday, reports from the Bulacan provincial police said.
Bulacan police information officer Maj. Jaynalyn Udal said on Saturday that one of the victins was recovered lifeless during police and rescue team retrieval operations while another one who was buried in the debris of the fallen structure has yet to be recovered.
Four other workers remain being treated in a hospital.
The incident happened in a warehouse in JL Toys Inter Global Industrial Complex in the boundary of Barangay Buisan, Bustos and Barangay Bagbaguin Pandi shortly before 4 p.m.
Based on report, the workers initially discovered a deformity in the slab they are constructing where they mmediately installed braces to prevent it from collapsing. However, the braces later broke down.
