A Tel Aviv parking garage collapsed Monday, killing at least two people and trapping about 20 others, officials said.
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Rescue workers say the death toll from a construction site collapse in Tel Aviv has risen to three.
Israel’s emergency service said another 20 people could be missing, though this is unconfirmed. One of the dead is a 28-year-old foreign worker, from Ukraine.
“Rescue forces have extracted an additional body from the building that collapsed yesterday in Tel Aviv”, an army statement said.
The circumstances of the collapse, which occurred in the Tel Aviv’s Ramat Hahayal high-tech neighbourhood, remain unclear.
Witness Sraya Listenberg said the implosion was so intense, it felt like an quake. “It’s been two or two-and-a-half hours since we had any connection” with the one trapped worker who had previously been communicating with rescuers, Mizrahi said. The upper three floors imploded; the lowest floor is believed to be about 50 feet underground.
As rescue teams tried to find trapped construction workers, authorities feared another collapse of the incomplete, unstable structure.
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.
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Teams worked all night to search for survivors inside the wreckage of the multilevel parking garage under construction that collapsed.
