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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Six Honduran coffee workers died today when an overhead storeroom collapsed, dumping around 1,000 sacks of coffee beans on them.
The six men, mostly young seasonal workers, were packing harvested beans at a coffee farm near the town of Villanueva in northern Honduras, when a wall gave way and the storeroom above them collapsed, emergency services officials said.
"They were all young men; one of them was only 16," rescue worker Francisco Alvarenga told Reuters by telephone. "We've recovered five of the bodies, and there's one left," he said.
Honduras, Central America's No. 2 coffee exporter after Guatemala, is in the busiest period of the annual harvest.
Coffee bean sacks when full usually weigh from 60 to 70 kilograms each.
- REUTERS
