Rescue workers and police
use a backhoe to search for buried construction worker Rattana
Sujritphakdee.
Theerarat
Suthathiwong
A female construction worker was killed after she was
buried alive in a trench collapse.
Sawang Boriboon Foundation rescuers and Huay Yai
police recovered the body of Rattana Sujritphakdee, 40, from a
3-meter-deep hole in Sakngaew village June 5. Workers used a small
backhoe to remove most of the soil, then rescuers used spades to find
Rattana, but too late.
Co-worker Sanguan Phakdeesawat, 35, said the two
women were measuring the depth of the 1.5-meter-wide, 200-meter-long
trench dug to accommodate an underground pipeline when the walls of the
pit suddenly collapsed. Sanguan said she was able to flee, but Rattana
fell and was buried.
