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December 24, 2014

Four including Chinese killed in Pakistan dam accident
Muzaffarabad, Pakistan (AFP) Dec 24, 2014
Four people including a Chinese engineer were killed Wednesday when a wall collapsed at a construction site for a major dam project in Kashmir, officials said. The accident happened at the Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower project intake site 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistan-administered part of the disputed Himalayan territory. "Four workers including a Chinese engineer were killed when a wall collapsed," Sayed Asif Gardezi, a local administration official, tol ... read more

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