Falling steel bars kill worker


KUALA LUMPUR: A 40-year-old Bangladeshi worker was killed and another injured after seven steel bars weighing 40kg each fell on them at the Mass Rapid Transport (MRT) Semantan portal construction site along Jalan Duta.

The deceased, Rijaul Abdul Goni, and his colleague Shanaullah, 37, were said to have been tying steel bars to assemble a circular rebar cage at 1.20pm yesterday.

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