BANGKOK, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Two geologists were killed due to the collapsing of land in a water tunnel in northern Thailand on Thursday.
The deceased, identified as Prachayawat Wasu-anant, 24, and Prathomporn Siriwat, 24, were surveying the construction site of the tunnel in Mae Taeng district of Chiang Mai province, about 700 kilometers north of the Thai capital, when the land just above the young geologists suddenly caved in, piled upon them and killed them, said Pairin Limcharoen, head of the branch office of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation in the northern province.
Both geologists were employed by Italian-Thai Development Corp., the contractor for the construction of the 10-kilometer-long tunnel in which gigantic pipes will be laid to carry water from one dam to another.
