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One person has been killed and five others injured in Manhattan after a New York City parking garage collapsed. Thehappened just after 4pm on Tuesday on Ann Street in the city’s Financial District when the multi-deck garage began to implode. The roof was first to fall, dropping down onto the third floor below it, but it wasn’t long before more of the building began to give way.
One of the workers was trapped on one of the building’s upper floors and was heard calling out to firefighters looking for survivors. He was rescued and taken to the safety of another building, while another worker who had fallen through the building from the second floor to the first managed to walk away, and another was apparently saved from flying debris because he was in an elevator at the time of the collapse.
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