Five construction workers were killed in Taipei on Sunday night after a cement form designed to hold wet concrete collapsed and burying those below it, Taiwan's media reported.

While workers were pouring cement into the form on the first floor, the form was apparently discovered to be sagging or giving way on to the floor below. The five workers were sent to inspect and prop up the form from the floor below. It collapsed on them and buried them alive, said local police.

An injured worker was not seriously hurt, said police.

(Xinhua News Agency December 18, 2006)