Trust fund set up to help families of 4 men killed in scaffolding collapse in Toronto
Posted January 5, 2010 7:32 pm.
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A trust fund has been set up to help the families of four workers who fell to their deaths from scaffolding on the 13th-floor of a Toronto highrise on Dec. 24th.
Proceeds will also be used to bury Aleksey Blumberg, 32, one of two men still unclaimed at the coroner’s office.
And members of Toronto’s Uzbekistan community are rallying to raise airfare to return Fayzullo Fazilov, 31, to his homeland for burial.
Also killed were Vladimir Korostin, 40, a refugee claimant and father of two from Uzbekistan, and Alexander Bondorev, 25, of Latvia, who has already been buried in the Toronto area.
A fifth man, Dilshod Marupov, 21, of Uzbekistan, remains in intensive care.Alla Bass, a friend of the Blumberg family, said proceeds of a trust fund will be shared equally among the four families and pay for Aleksey’s burial in Toronto.
Blumberg’s mother and sister cannot attend the service from Uzbekistan because they couldn’t obtain travel documents. Bass said.“His wife is grieving and the family want to say their goodbyes,” she said Tuesday.“The family would like to have him buried as soon as possible.”
Toronto Police Supt. Ron Taverner said an investigation is continuing with provincial labour ministry officials into the cause of the incident.
