“Three workers killed, 3 injured in stadium collapse in Shenzhen”, 8 July 2019

Three workers were killed and three others were injured when a stadium in southern China collapsed during demolition work… The Shenzhen Stadium came down… while the work was being carried out and the cause of the collapse was being investigated, the Futian district government said.

… two workers had been rescued from the rubble and were taken to hospital, where one – a 50-year-old man surnamed Wang – later died, the government said. Two other workers who were still trapped were freed… and taken to hospital with injuries, it said. But two of the three who had been rescued from the rubble later died in hospital, the government said, without elaborating. Another two workers who were nearby when the structure fell were treated in hospital for bone fractures.

The part of the venue that collapsed had previously been used as a basketball court but was being renovated and most of the interior had been torn down apart from a few pillars supporting the roof, according to Shenzhen Special Zone Daily…Work to upgrade the stadium began last year..