A platform fell from a motorway viaduct being built in southern Spain today, killing six construction workers, officials said.
"The news we have is that there are six dead, five of them Portuguese and one Spanish," Juan Jose Lopez, the Madrid government's top representative in the southern region of Andalucia, told state radio.
Three injured workers were being treated at a local hospital, according to media reports. The metal platform, 60 metres long by 12 metres wide, served as a framework for a concrete section of the Mediterranean Motorway being built near Almunecar on the southern Mediterranean coast.
The platform fell from a height of 50 metres on workers below. Initially there had been fears that up to 20 workers might have been killed but the other workers escaped the collapse.