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Reuters

A parking garage under construction collapsed in Tel Aviv on Monday killed at least two people and injured around 20 others Monday, officials said, as rescuers tried to reach several people believed trapped in rubble.
A fire brigade spokesman said part of the three-storey structure had initially collapsed, causing a crane to fall and bring down more of the partially-completed parking building.
The incident occurred in the Tel Aviv neighbourhood of Ramat Hahayal adjacent to a hospital and buildings housing high-tech offices and restaurants.

Police earlier said at least seven people were trapped in the collapse at an underground car park at a construction site, but it was unclear if some had since been rescued.
Police confirmed two people were killed and medics reported four or five people believed trapped at the site of the multi-floor car park, filled with twisted metal, dirt and rubble.
Surveillance video at the time of the collapse showed the area quickly enveloped by thick clouds of dirt and rubble.
Medics could be seen walking across rubble as they carried a wounded person away on a stretcher.
Other medics with stretchers as well as ambulances waited nearby on standby. Search-and-rescue dogs were also at the scene.

While contact had been made with some of those trapped, leading to their rescue, the seven earlier reported missing by police had not been contacted.
The army said it sent search and rescue forces to “extract civilians”.
“It is about four to five stories down under the surface,” Avi Marcus, a medic with United Hatzalah rescue service who arrived on the scene shortly after the collapse, said.
“It was only construction workers. There weren’t any other people. I provided medical care to some of the injured people ... They say some movement shook the building,” he said.


United Hatzalah said “firefighters and rescue teams are working to extricate” those believed missing.
“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.
“While members of our ambu-cycle unit who arrived first on scene were treating the injured, reports came in of other people who were unaccounted for and likely still trapped inside.”
The collapse occurred in Tel Aviv’s Ramat Hahayal neighbourhood at the construction site that appeared to be around half-finished.

Ramat Hahayal, an upmarket neighbourhood on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, is home to a number of high-tech offices in Israel’s booming technology industry, based around the city of more than 400,000 people.
The cause of the collapse was not yet clear.
Israel has seen an unusually high number of construction accidents in comparison to the developed world.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported in May that 480 people were killed in construction accidents between 2000 and 2015.

The survey placed Israel third from the bottom in a list that included the United States and 20 European nations, ahead of Cyprus and Portugal, Haaretz said, citing a report from the economy ministry and National Insurance Institute.
The economy ministry said in response that it would focus on enforcing construction industry regulations.


Two killed, several missing after building site in Israel collapses

The building collapsed in a Tel Aviv construction zone on Monday, injuring at least 18 people and trapping at least nine people inside. Photo: AP

Israeli rescue services search through the rubble after a building site collapsed in Tel Aviv, Israel September 5, 2016. REUTERS/Nir Elias

Israeli medics and emergency units carry a wounded person away on a stretcher from a construction site after an underground car park collapsed on September 5, 2016 in the Ramat Hahayal neighbourhood in the coastal city of Tel Aviv. Police reported 18 wounded, including one seriously, one moderately and 16 lightly. / AFP PHOTO / GIL COHEN-MAGEN

Israeli members of the Magen David Adom rescue service wait next to stretchers after an underground car park collapsed at a construction site on September 5, 2016 in the Ramat Hahayal neighbourhood in the coastal city of Tel Aviv. Police reported at least one person dead. Ramat Hahayal is home to a number of high-tech offices in Israel's booming technology industry, based around the city of more than 400,000 people. / AFP PHOTO / GIL COHEN-MAGEN

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