Employees of the South Korean contractor of the construction site where a scaffold collapsed and killed 13 workers in central Vietnam last week are now prohibited from leaving the country, police said Monday.
The ban is applied to those officials and employees of Samsung C&T Corp, a unit of South Korea's Samsung Group, who were involved in the accident, Nguyen Van An, deputy director of the Public Security Department of Ha Tinh Province, said without elaboration.
Thirteen Vietnamese were killed and 28 others were injured when a scaffold weighing hundreds of metric tons at the construction site, where Samsung C&T is the main contractor, in the Taiwanese-invested Formosa Industrial Park in Ha Tinh collapsed on Wednesday night.