Last night a construction accident caused the scaffolding of a building to fall on a bus. The falling debris made a hole through the roof of the bus. The incident occurred last night,Thursday May 16th, near the front of the Central Post Office in the centre of the Ulaanbaatar. The accident occurred at 6:00 pm and caused no casualties but the bus and a car were damaged.

The bus belongs to Hera Holding LLC and is used for staff service. It was carrying passengers at the time of accident but fortunately there were no injuries.

When traffic police arrived at the scene of the accident they did an inspection for road safety.

The bus driver commented that “the first thing I thought was it was thundering because it was raining. But soon I realised the scaffolding frame was falling on the cars around. Then I found that the poles had made a hole through the roof of the bus. Even though the bus was full of passengers when it my route started but at the time of accident there were only 10 passengers left. Fortunately no one was injured.”

Some vehicles had their glass broken and cracked. The witnesses say that the scaffolding frame fell down from the building construction located just across the road from the Central Post Office. According to witnesses the construction that is in progress belongs to Eco Construction LLC.

Last September there was a fatal accident where a metal frame dropped from unfinished construction causing the death of a young man in front of Tengis movie theatre. The construction also belonged to Eco Construction LLC.