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Two die in Semanggi platform accident
South Jakarta Police said Friday they had questioned four witnesses over the death of two technicians who fell from the ninth floor of South Jakarta's Plaza Semanggi, but have yet to reach a conclusion on the cause of the accident
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South Jakarta Police said Friday they had questioned four witnesses over the death of two technicians who fell from the ninth floor of South Jakarta's Plaza Semanggi, but have yet to reach a conclusion on the cause of the accident.
The head of the South Jakarta Police, Sr. Comr. Chairul Anwar, said two of the witnesses were from building management, two were surviving colleagues of the victims and the fourth was a passerby who saw the event from below.
Chairul said the two victims, Syamsul Arif and Hadi Masliadi, were technicians tasked with checking the building's suspension devices. They fell to their death Thursday following the suspected malfunction of a nearby maintenance platform.
"A falling platform crashed into a wall near to where the two men were standing, causing both to fall," Chairul said as quoted by Detik.com.
The bodies of the victims were taken to a hospital near Plaza Semanggi. Their bodies were later sent to the Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Plaza Semanggi public relations official Laila Tania said the contractor that owned the gondola would accept all responsibility for the accident.
