One dead and four trapped in Tel Aviv building collapse

Some 18 Israeli and Palestinian workers were rescued in the hour after the collapse of the construction site, a tiered parking structure, late Monday morning in northern Tel Aviv.

Reports say a crane fell on to the three-storey building, bringing it down.

It was not immediately clear what sort of structure was involved in the incident.

There were reports of several missing people, potentially trapped under the rubble in the city’s Ramat Hachayal district.

The footage then pans inside the construction site, where huge piles of rubble and broken pieces of wood can be seen piled up as people shout in the background.

The Israeli military has been dispatched to help emergency services.

A rescue operation is under way in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after a auto park under construction collapsed, with fears of people trapped inside.

“They had lots of luck”, Listenberg said. Another person was critically injured. Magen David Adom declared it a “mass casualty event”, which usually means that at least five people were injured.

So far this year, 28 construction workers have died in work accidents on building sites in the country, Samri said.

“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.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site late Monday night, eschewing the Federation Internationale de Football Association 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match between Israel and Italy being held in Jerusalem.

Between 2000 and 2015, 480 people were killed in construction accidents, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported in May.