Lebanese supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad fired heavy machine guns and lobbed mortar shells at each other Thursday in some of the worst fighting in the port city of Tripoli in years.BEIJING – A platform elevator at a construction site in southern China dropped 30 floors in a free fall, killing 19 workers.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the accident happened Thursday in Wuhan city in Hubei province.
A government notice posted by local Wuhan newspapers on their official microblogging sites said the elevator fell 328 feet.
It says the municipal government is halting all construction in Wuhan for security checks.
Work safety is a big problem in China, where regulations are routinely ignored. Although the government says it is taking measures to reduce fatalities, more than 75,500 people died in work-related accidents last year, according to the State Administration of Work Safety.
