SHANGHAI: The death toll from a collapse at a power station under construction in China has risen to 74, state media said on Friday, as web users expressed outrage over the country’s latest industrial accident.

A platform more than 70 meters (230 feet) high in a cooling tower at the Ganneng Fengcheng power station in the eastern province of Jiangxi crashed to the ground early Thursday.

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