Thursday, July 14, 2011

3 construction workers die in septic tank

Malvar, Batangas– Three of six construction workers died of suffocation when they were trapped inside a septic tank they were cleaning inside the LIMA Technology Center in Barangay Santiago, this town,0 yesterday morning. 
     Senior Inspector Gaudencio Aguilera, Malvar police chief, identified the fatalities as Romulo Alvarez, Nardito Igloso, and Ronald Alimbo, all construction workers of EZP Technohub Mabz Builders.
    According to the police investigation, the three victims were working in the septic tank in a warehouse and were about to remove the scaffoldings when it collapsed and trapped the two victims at the bottom.
     When they realized what happened, three workers went inside the septic tank in attempt to save their co-workers, but they also suffocated and collapsed. 
     Alvarez, Igloso and Alimbo were declared dead on arrival at the Metro Lipa Hospital, while Genaro Igloso, Terasio Ondoy and Librado Jaranilla were treated for minor injuries. 
    Rescue teams from the Malvar and Lipa fire departments responded to the incident.
     Because of the stench, even the television news teams who came to cover the incident were prevented from taking footages inside the construction site.
     According to Aguilera,  they would investigate LIMA's head of security for failing to report the incident to the police.
Television news teams were also prevented to take footages of the construction site. 

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