Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/18
By: Huang Kuo-fang and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, May 18 (CNA) Two workers are in critical condition at a hospital in Chiayi County
Photo courtesy of Chiayi County Fire Bureau
after they were pulled out of an underground sewer where they fell unconscious while on the job Friday evening, a local firefighter said.
The local workers, males aged 32 and 55, were reported at 5:45 p.m. to have fainted in an underground section of the sewage system in the city of Puzi, said Hsieh Jung-chan (謝榮展), a division chief of the Chiayi County Fire Bureau.
Rescue personnel were immediately dispatched to the site, and they pulled the two men from a depth of two to three meters below ground out of the sewer, Hsieh said.
The workers did not have a pulse after being brought to the surface, and rescuers suspected they suffered from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, Hsieh said.
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