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Fifteen killed at Harare construction site

    JOHANNESBURG

    Fifteen workmen were killed in central Harare on Thursday morning when a construction crane plummeted nearly 70 metres to the ground in what media reports called one of the country's worst industrial accidents. The accident occurred in the downtown area at the new Millennium Towers skyscraper being built for the Central Africa Building Society. The Zimbabwe
    Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)said the accident reflected "low and deteriorating health and safety standards" in Zimbabwe where last year 20,000 industrial accidents were reported.

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