The Prosecutor General's Office confirmed the incident Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine. According to provisional information, 3 people were killed and 45 were injured.

canopy collapsed at the copper concentrator-3 project site, causing deaths and injuries. The footage was sent by Indian workers.

The workers were hired by the general contractor for this facility, Enter Engineering.

This is not the first incident during the Copper concentrator-3 project. The footages show workers getting injured on construction site. Such cases occur, including through the fault of workers, but their failure to comply with safety regulations, according to the source, is forced, since they are not properly provided with load-handling devices, personal protective equipment. While, workers have not been getting wages for four months.

The Copper concentrator-3 project is part of the Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine (AMMC). It is expected to process products from the $5.12 billion Yoshlik-1 deposit. This deposit is on 11 thousand hectares and contains 13 types of rare metals, such as gold, copper, silver, molybdenum and selenium. In early February, the director of AGMK Abdullo Khursanov said that the president had instructed t oimplement the Copper concentrator-3 project begin no later than July 1, and the “engineering, basic design works” to be completed by March 1.

Enter Engineering and the Russian Uralmashzavod were selected for the construction contractors. The project was then estimated at $2 billion, and implementation was scheduled for 2023. Initially, the project was to be implemented by Renaissance Heavy Industries under the control of SFI Management Group, but in February 2021 they were excluded from the project.