Three die in fish sauce vat

21 Sep 2009, 7:49 pm   -   Source: AFP/SBS
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A Vietnamese worker and two colleagues who went to his aid suffocated to death inside a vat of fish sauce, police say.

A Vietnamese worker and two colleagues who went to his aid suffocated to death inside a vat of fish sauce, police say.

The accident happened on Saturday at a fish sauce plant in the Cam Ranh township of coastal Khanh Hoa province.

One worker got into trouble after climbing in to fix a pipe, prompting his co-workers to try to rescue him, the Nong Nghiep (Agriculture) Vietnam newspaper reported.

All three died on the spot, it said.

Police were still investigating the deaths, a policeman who refused to be named told the AFP news agency.

Vietnamese fish sauce, a widely-used condiment, is made from a mix of anchovies and salt which is left to distil for more than a year in three-metre-high (10-feet-high) wooden vats.

 

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