One person died and another was injured after a steel tube of a crane cracked in China's largest industry center of Shanghai at midday Sunday.

The incident occurred at 12:15 a.m. at a construction site of an underground channel in Huangpu District, when the crane was working. A steel tube of the crane suddenly broke and collapsed, hitting two people.

The dead was a native manager in his 50s, while the injured coming from neighboring Jiangsu Province has been sent to hospital.

The cause of the incident was under investigation.

(Xinhua News Agency October 12, 2008)