China admits Games worker deaths

China has admitted that six workers have been killed on Olympic Games construction projects since 2003.

Until now, Beijing had denied there had been any fatalities on the building sites being readied for this August's Games.

Officials said the families of the dead workers had been compensated.

Games organisers last week dismissed a report in a British newspaper that at least 10 workers had died building the main Olympic venue.

Officials now say two workers died at the National Stadium in Beijing.

Ding Zhenkuan, deputy chief of the Chinese capital's Municipal Bureau of Work Safety, said they were among six workers who had died over five years.


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