Four workers died while servicing a private sewer this morning in Bang Na.
At 10:45am, police were called and told that five workers were in distress inside an underground wastewater treatment system at food processing factory CPF Company on Soi 20 of Bang Na Trat Road, reported The Nation.
The workers were unconscious when police and rescue workers arrived.
Though rescue workers performed CPR and made other attempts to resuscitate them, four died at the scene and the fifth was brought to the hospital, where he later died, reported Thai PBS.
Police are not yet sure what caused the deaths but believe the workers suffocated while cleaning the system’s tank.
