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It seemed just another Tuesday afternoon for
workers in and around the Beach Road area with construction underway
for the MRT Circle Line.
Without warning, the world around them seemed
to cave-in. Drivers on Nicoll Highway
saw the road in front of them collapse away.
The collapse of a temporary wall in a tunnel
area had caused a road section along Nicoll Highway to cave in,
leaving three dead and three injured.
Search and rescue operations for the last missing
person - 40-year-old foreman Heng Yeow Peow - have been called off
as recent soil movement around the area had made
rescue operations difficult.
LTA engineers have been working to firm up the ground
and has introduced new material to shore up the site.
Meanwhile, the Nicoll Highway has been partially reopened
to traffic, restoring access into the National Stadium area, including
the Singapore Indoor Stadium and the Kallang Theatre (see map on
right).
The section of Nicoll Highway, between Middle Road
and Stadium Road, remains closed to traffic. Directional signs are
in place to inform motorists of the diversions and closures.
According to the Land Transport Authority, earlier
excavation works at the MRT Circle Line work site along Nicoll Highway
near the Merdeka Bridge, behind Golden Mile Complex, collapsed at
about 3.30 pm.
This resulted in major soil subsidence along the highway.
The collapse left a 30-metre deep cave-in across six
lanes of Nicoll Highway, over an area the size of two basketball
courts.
No motorists were travelling along the usually congested
highway when the collapse happened.
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