Worker killed in soil collapse accident at Gangnam sewer maintenance site

A construction worker in his 60s died Wednesday after being buried in a soil collapse at a sewer pipe maintenance site in an apartment complex near Suseo Station in Gangnam-gu, southern Seoul, police said.

According to the Seoul Suseo Police Station, a 3.5-meter-high pile of soil around the site collapsed at around 12:20 p.m. while the worker was installing formwork.

He was taken to a nearby hospital in cardiac arrest but was later pronounced dead.

Two other workers at the site escaped before th ...