Geologists die in tunnel cave-in
The deaths of two young geologists may have been caused by a fragile layer of rocks in a freshly built tunnel caving in, causing a large rock to fall and crush them, engineers say. The incident in Mae Taeng district occurred as Pratyawat Wasu-anant, 24, and Pathomporn Siriwat, 23, went into tunnel No 6 for a geological inspection Thursday morning. The men worked for Italian-Thai Development Plc. The tunnel near Ban Pasak Ngam in tambon Mae Hoe Phra was being built to divert water into the district’s Mae Kuang Dam reservoir.
