24 additional people were injured in the incident and evacuated to multiple hospitals, including one who is in serious condition, three in fair condition and all the rest who are in good condition.
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But Dudi Mizrahi, the head of the command’s Search and Rescue Unit, said at 8:30 p.m. that there had been no contact with any of the missing workers for more than two hours.
Police reported 18 wounded, including one seriously, one moderately and 16 lightly.
At present, entry to the area is complicated and unsafe and EMS personnel may not enter as they usually would at a multi-casualty incident.
The two killed were construction workers, Israeli emergency services spokesman Yonatan Yagodovsky said.
Israeli medics and emergency units carry respond to the scene of a collapsed auto park in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2016.
Four more people were feared trapped inside the underground structure in the Ramat Hahayal neigbourhood, on the corner of Habarzel Street and Nehoshet Street.
There was no word of casualties or a cause of the collapse.
Eight construction workers were killed while working in the first half of 2015. “They say some movement shook the building”.
Israel Defense Forces are leading the rescue effort and teams worked around the clock to locate and extract the construction workers.
“It appeared to me that the roof of a parking garage had collapsed in the building site”, United Hatzalah quoted another of its medics as saying.
Earlier this year, Israel released a study on construction deaths, showing the country’s poor safety record compared to the rest of the developed world.
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Tel Aviv Police Chief Chico Edri also confirmed at a press conference later that five people were missing.
