Four Poles in chimney death plunge

File photo: Bongiwe Mchunu

File photo: Bongiwe Mchunu

Published Dec 4, 2013

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Warsaw, Poland - Firefighters in central Poland say four maintenance workers have plunged to their deaths some 120 meters (400 feet) down a chimney that they were working on at a coal-fired power plant.

Spokesman Waldemar Krakowiak said Wednesday that the four were standing on a platform that came loose inside a chimney at the Kozienice plant, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Warsaw. They had been carrying out maintenance on the chimney.

Prosecutors are investigating.

Sapa-AP

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