The government of Para had to send a plane Monday night to Itaiatuba to transport the 13 most seriously injured people to Santarem because the small Amazonian city lacks the medical facilities to care for critically injured people. The accident occurred at the Itacipasa cement plant, located some 30km from Itaiatuba, where a section of scaffolding being set up by about 20 workers for an expansion project collapsed. The cause of the collapse has not been determined.
Source: Latin America Herald Tribune
