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News24 reports that quick-thinking workers saved the life of a colleague when a trench he was digging collapsed on him in Pretoria on Friday.
But, Netcare 911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst said another worker was killed when the two-metre deep trench collapsed in Oaktree Street, Hazelwood. Seeing only the top of their trapped colleague’s head, the workers scrambled to remove sand to enable him to breathe while waiting for help to arrive. Herbst advised that while emergency workers were trying to recover the body of the man who died, other sections of the trench started collapsing. The recovery operation was then put on hold for safety reasons.
- Read the original of the report by Jenni Evans on this story at News24
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