china hushes up olympic deaths

from the australian: China has systematically covered up the accidental deaths of at least 10 workers, and perhaps many more, in a rush to construct the futuristic "bird's nest" stadium in Beijing for this summer's Olympic Games...

Witnesses have told The Sunday Times of seeing workers plummet to their deaths from the perilous heights of the stadium, which was designed by a consortium including Arup, the British engineering firm, and Herzog & de Meuron, the Swiss architects.

The bodies were swiftly removed by police, who sealed off accident scenes with orange tape and cleared other workers from the area while the dead were loaded into police vehicles, witnesses said. Managers and police ordered the workers not to mention the deaths to anyone and not to talk about the accidents among themselves...

Chinese officials deny that there have been any deaths.