A rescue worker continues searching at the site where a power plant's cooling tower under construction collapsed, in Fengcheng, Jiangxi province, China, November 25, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have formally detained nine people involved in a power plant construction project in the east of the country which collapsed last week killing 74 people, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday.
The accident happened on Thursday morning in Fengcheng, in Jiangxi province, during work on a cooling tower for a coal-fired power plant. A tower crane collapsed, triggering the collapse of the entire construction platform.
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