Terengganu stadium roof comes down, yet again
Five workers were injured, three seriously, when steel structures supporting the roof of the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium in Gong Badak that was currently undergoing re-construction work, collapsed at 11.30am today.
Five workers were injured, three seriously, when steel structures supporting the roof of the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium in Gong Badak that was currently undergoing re-construction work, collapsed at 11.30am today.
The five local workers who were trapped under the rubble were later pulled out and sent to the Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital.
Terengganu deputy police chief Hamzah Mohd Jamil said workers were dismantling the old roof structure when the incident happened.
“About 137 metres or two-thirds of the old structure collapsed when eight workers were carrying out work at the site,” he told reporters in Kuala Terengganu today.
Hamzah said the three who were seriously injured were Mohd Nazirul Nizam Marzuki, 22, Mohd Saidi Ismail, 21, and Safian Abdul Manaf, 21, while Wan Mohd Fajrulazmi Wan Ahmad, 26, and Mohd Syukri Jusoh, 31, escaped with light injuries.
On June 2, 2009, part of the roof collapsed at the stadium’s grandstand a year after it opened for the Malaysia Games (Sukma) in 2008, but no one was hurt then while repair works started at the end of last year.
Terengganu Menteri Besar Ahmad Said when met at Seri Iman in Kuala Terengganu said the incident was due to negligence by the contractor who was responsible for reconstruction work.
He said the repair work on the stadium that cost RM292 million was being carried out at a cost of RM15 million.
Meanwhile, a worker who witnessed the incident, Ahmad Faizan Ramli, said he heard a loud noise and was shocked to see steel pillars collapse and pin down the workers.
“During the incident, workers, including one of my friend, were dissecting the old structure with the help of cranes,” he said.
- Bernama
