Four workers found dead in Jakarta sewer

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 12/22/2009 3:49 PM

Four men working to clean part of a sewer in Kampung Melayu in East Jakarta were found dead on Tuesday. Authorities suspect the men were trapped by water inside the sewer and suffocated.

“They died inside the sewer,” Timur Munadi, chief of East Jakarta Fire Agency, told reporters as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

Timur said there were five workers in the group, one of them survived.

The men began cleaning the 1.5-meter diameter sewer pipe around 9 a.m. and were found dead at 10:30 a.m. inside the sewer in Kali Baru, Gunung Antang.

The bodies were evacuated in the afternoon and have been taken to Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital for autopsy