Nine people died and one was seriously injured after falling from a 23-floor scaffold on Saturday in south China's Guangdong Province.

The 10 people were constructing a 34-story building on the scaffold when they fell at around 3:00 pm in Shenzhen city's Nanshan district, a spokesman with the municipal information office said.

The injured person, being treated in a local hospital, is in critical condition, he said.

The police were investigating the case, he added.

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