The 35-year-old worker, identified as Fung, died after he fell into an excavated opening and severely injured himself upon falling on iron bars that had been fixed in the trench at the site of the motorway project, Dawn online reported.
The Chinese national was rushed to Abbottabad district headquarters hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
District police officer, Ashfaq Anwar, told the daily that this was an accident.
The body will be sent to China soon.
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