(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) A four-story parking structure collapsed in New York City's
lower Manhattan near Pace University on Tuesday, killing at least
one worker and injuring five others who were in the building,
authorities said, trend reports citing reuters .
Emergency personnel deploying robotic devices after firefighters
were pulled back from the fallen structure because of unstable
conditions were checking the site for any further casualties, but
authorities said they believed everyone who was in the building had
been accounted for.
No foul play was suspected.
"We have no reason to believe that it was anything other than a
structural collapse," City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell told
reporters.
Video footage from the scene cited by CBS and ABC affiliates
showed a rescue operation getting underway and multiple cars
stacked on top of one another amid crumpled slabs of concrete.
One person was pronounced dead on the scene, four more were
taken to area hospitals for injuries and a sixth individual who was
hurt declined medical treatment, said John Esposito, chief of fire
operations for the New York City Fire Department.
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