10 dead in China school scaffold collapse

Ten construction workers were killed and four others injured when scaffolding collapsed at one of Beijing’s most prestigious high schools, Chinese officials said.

The accident happened at the start of the school day at Tsinghua High School in the city’s north-west, but did not affect any classrooms or other buildings used for instruction, according to a statement from the Beijing municipal propaganda bureau. The statement said the injured were in a stable condition.