Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRT Corp) has announced that its CEO Datuk Wira Azhar Abdul Hamid has resigned over the incident that occurred last night at the MRT worksite within the former Rubber Research Institute near Kota Damansara.
"As the head of MRT Corp, I am taking personal responsibility for the incident and this is the correct thing to do. I have informed the chairman Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa of my decision," he said. He added that MRT Corp and relevant authorities will investigate and identify the cause of the incident.
A span of the MRT guideway had dislodged from its piers and fallen on the ground below at around 8:30pm yesterday. The span, which was made up of 14 units of segmented box girders, was 38m in length and weighed 300 tons.
Three workers of Bangladesh nationality are believed to be trapped underneath, and one body was recovered in the early hours of this morning. Work to search for the two remaining workers is continuing.
The operation involves cutting eight tendons to loosen the 14 segmented box girders (SBGs) that are stressed together to form the fallen span. Loosening the SBGs will enable each unit to be removed. All work along Package V1 where the incident occurred has been suspended until further notice.
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