Rescue personnel digging in the search for missing workers at a construction site collapse in Tel Aviv, Sept. 5, 2016.
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Israeli television images showed medics walking across rubble, twisted iron bars and dirt as they carried a wounded person away on a stretcher.
The building, which was under construction, sits in a commercial area in northern Tel Aviv, comprising of mainly high-tech businesses, restaurants and a hospital.
Rescue efforts to save those trapped under the rubble of a collapsed parking facility in Tel Aviv became frantic Tuesday, as concerns mounted that possible survivors were running out of oxygen.
Reports say an initial collapse caused a crane to fall, bringing down more of the multi-storey building.
Israeli television reported that 15 people were missing, but police did not confirm that number.
Four more people were feared trapped inside the underground structure in the Ramat Hahayal neigbourhood, on the corner of Habarzel Street and Nehoshet Street.
Sheets of metal are twisted and broken at the construction site, with the makeshift metal walls still carrying warning signs to passers-by.
Twenty-eight laborers were killed in the first half of the year, 16 of whom were construction workers.
A police spokesman said: “Several floors of the building collapsed”.
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s developments as they unfold.
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Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported in May that 480 people were killed in construction accidents between 2000 and 2015. The police have begun investigating the incident, and the Occupational Health and Safety Administration in the Ministry of Economy and Industry is also examining what went wrong.
