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6 Hong Kong construction workers die in fall down elevator shaft of skyscraper
A construction platform inside an elevator shaft collapsed ...sending six workers falling about 20 stories to their deaths inside a Hong Kong skyscraper...Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang told reporters the men fell after the platform they were working on collapsed in the elevator shaft...The building's developer, major Hong Kong property company Sun Hung Kai, has agreed to pay each of the victims' families 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($128,000) on top of normal compensation payments...Sun Hung Kai did not immediately respond to a request for comment.