A four-story parking garage has collapsed in New York City, US media report. One dead and five injured. Rescuers said no other people were trapped under the rubble.
Emergency services were alerted around 4:30 p.m. local time to a collapsed parking lot in Manhattan’s financial district. Videos on social media show clouds of dust and people screaming. Various cars and concrete slabs are stacked on top of each other.
Due to the risk of collapse, robots were used to search for possible other victims, but according to the authorities, no one is missing anymore. “There were six people in the building at the time of the collapse. Four of them have been taken to hospital. Their condition is stable. One person was killed and another refused to receive treatment,” John Esposito of the New York Fire Department said at a news conference.
Nothing is known about the cause yet. The victims are workmen, but whether they were working on the parking garage has not been disclosed.
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