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Four workers suffocate in Phuket sewer

PHUKET: Four Thai workmen died this morning (March 26) from suffocation after they went down into a sewer on Srisuthat Rd on the edge of Phuket Town to clean out the pipe.


By Eakkapop Thongtub

Wednesday 26 March 2014 11:44 AM


Rescuers work to retrieve the bodies of the dead workers.

Rescuers work to retrieve the bodies of the dead workers.

Kusondharm rescuers are on the scene and it is understood one of those, too, had to be pulled out after he succumbed to the fumes.

Rescuers using breathing apparatus are now retrieving the bodies of the workers, who were working on a contract for Eastern Thai Co.

More details when we have them.