Four people including a Chinese engineer were killed today when a wall collapsed at a construction site for a major dam project in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
The accident happened at the Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower project intake site 40 kilometres north of Muzaffarabad.
"Four workers including a Chinese engineer were killed when a wall collapsed," Sayed Asif Gardezi, a local administration official, told AFP.
He said a Chinese engineer and two other Pakistani workers were injured but they were out of danger.
The incident was confirmed by local rescue officials.
China is one of Pakistan's main allies and there are thousands of Chinese engineers and other workers in Pakistan helping on infrastructure projects including nuclear power plants, dams and roads.
Last month Beijing promised Islamabad investment worth USD 42 billion over the coming years, much of it focused on the energy sector where Pakistan suffers chronic and economically damaging shortages.
Industrial safety standards in Pakistan are poor and fatal accidents are common.
