From correspondents in Emirates, United Arab Emirates, 01:00 PM IST

Two workers, including an Indian, were killed in a construction site accident in Sharjah, police said.

The two were standing on a cradle plastering concrete on the 24th floor of a 33-floor building in the Al Nahda area of Sharjah when a rope snapped and the cradle crashed to the ground Sunday evening.

Both the workers died on the spot, reports here said, quoting Lt. Col. Mohammad Habib Hassan of the Sharjah Police.

The other worker has been identified as a Bangladeshi.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)