Five construction workers remained missing and believed trapped underground almost 12 hours after the collapse of a tiered parking structure under construction in Tel Aviv that killed two and injured at least 24.
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Israeli members of the Magen David Adom rescue service wait next to stretchers after an underground vehicle park collapsed at a construction site on September 5, 2016 in the Ramat Hahayal neighbourhood in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.
The four-storey building in Tel Aviv, which was under construction, caved in yesterday morning, burying three levels under rubble.
Paramedics were called to the scene on Monday morning.
Earlier on Monday, the Home Front Command said the locations of the remaining trapped construction workers “have been approximated and are being monitored”.
Hours after the collapse, as many as seven people were still trapped in the debris, Israeli emergency services said. One of the dead is a 28-year-old foreign worker, from Ukraine.
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.
“Everything fell down in one second”, he said.
The collapse sent a large plume of dust floating over the area and left a crater-like hole in the ground.
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Nine people have been taken to hospital.
