The incident took place on Monday when the Indian workers were pouring concrete into the ceiling of the basement of the hotel located in Ajman emirate of the UAE, police said. Three bodies have been recovered so far, police said. The three remaining construction workers trapped under the hardened concrete are believed to be dead, said Ajman police chief Colonel Ali Abdullah Alwan.
All the victims are Indians who worked for Seidco General Contracting, which was building the Laguna
Beach Hotel on the Corniche Road in Ajman.
Police were questioning the site engineer, a consultant and two others. The supervising engineer at the site said a leakage was reported and he had ordered the workers to go down and check. "Within minutes the whole thing went down," the engineer said.
The construction of the hotel was stopped twice earlier and work had been going on intermittently over the past two years, workers said. Meanwhile, a spokesman from the company said it will investigate why the accident occurred. The spokesman said it seemed like the scaffolding or the frame work was not able to take the weight of the concrete causing it to collapse.
