ACCIDENT AT DUBAI AIRPORT KILLS 8
A crane smashed into a wall during construction of an unfinished terminal at Dubai's airport Monday, and witnesses reported at least eight workers were killed Workers said they saw up to 40 injured people being taken away, but the toll could not be immediately confirmed. Airport spokeswoman Lavina Dixit Chatterjee issued a lower toll, saying five workers were killed and 12 were injured
Two Dubai hospitals said they had received a total of 22 injured workers, including nine in serious condition.
At least eight people were killed at the scene and some died in the hospital, said an official of the building consortium Al-Naboodah Laing O'Rourke, the main contractor at the site.
The Dubai facility bills itself as "the world's fastest growing airport" and is engaged in a $4.1 billion expansion that will enable it to boost its capacity from 22 million passengers per year to 60 million per year when it is completed in 2018, reports AP.
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