Three pedestrians were killed and another three were injured after a scaffold collapsed in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Friday afternoon.

The accident occurred at about 2:45 p.m. when a scaffold in a wall decoration project collapsed beside the Times Square on Taiping Road, Mudanjiang City, a municipal work safety official said.

Two pedestrians died at the spot. One died in the hospital.

The other three were being treated at Mudanjiang Municipal No. 2 Hospital, including one seriously injured person who was sent into surgery.

(Xinhua News Agency May 10, 2008)