Two die in Jurong shipyard explosion
Asia One Thursday 12th May, 2011
AN EXPLOSION at a shipyard in Jurong yesterday afternoon killed two foreign workers and injured several others. The blast occurred at No. 3 Benoi Road, in a shipyard occupied by Haosen Marine, at about 1.30pm. The two workers, a 43-year-old Malaysian and a 20-year-old Bangladeshi, died at the scene. Preliminary investigations conducted by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) revealed that the workers were checking tank compartments of a barge for leaks just before the blast. MOM added that some workers suffered minor injuries in the blast but no one was hospitalised. An office worker who was in a building across the road told my paper that he heard a loud sound. "I thought it was thunder and that it was going to rain heavily," he said. MOM said that it has ordered a stop to all work at th...
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