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Three Chinese arrested over India chimney collapse
Raipur, India (AFP) Jan 11, 2010 Indian police on Monday arrested three Chinese employees over the collapse of an industrial chimney that killed 40 workers. The men were employees of China's Shandong Electric Power Construction, which was contracted to build the 178-metre (584-feet) power station chimney in central Chhattisgarh state, police said. The two engineers and a project manager have been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder, local police officer Ratan Lal Dangi told AFP from the site, 250 kilometres (155 miles) from state capital Raipur. Monday's arrests took to seven the number of people held so far in connection with the September 23 accident when the partially built chimney toppled over, burying labourers under tonnes of concrete. The police chief of Korba district, where the plant was located, has dismissed claims that bad weather caused the collapse, instead blaming poor workmanship and alleged lack of supervision.
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