Three expatriate Bangladeshis died after working on the construction project in Maleshita Kampung Makate, said the accident happened on Thursday (November 2) at the locality of the local police, said Machang District Superintendent of Police Mohammad Adli Mat Daud.
The police could not immediately identify the victims.
Anis Asikin Arifin (29) said he was cooking in the afternoon, and he heard the screams of the workers at a construction site near the shore, and his father-in-law Siti Rohani Setapa told him that a worker had died on the ground.
He added that after a while, the police and fire brigade personnel reached the spot after a short time after the information was reported and they recovered the bodies of the three people and sent them to Machang Hospital for post-mortem.
