Worker dies after wall collapses in Umm Al Quwain

The man was crushed on a construction site in Salmah

Civil Defence retrieve the body of a worker from beneath a collapsed concrete wall on a construction site in Umm Al Quwain. Courtesy: Umm Al Quwain Civil Defence

A construction worker died on Sunday after a concrete wall collapsed on him in Umm Al Quwain.

Civil Defence were called to the site in Salmah area and were able to locate the body using a thermal imaging camera and lift the wall using a hydraulic scissor lift.

Col Salem Hamad bin Hamda, director of the department of Civil Defence, said the worker was pronounced dead on site.

No further information was made available.