A Palestinian illegal alien suffered moderate to serious wounds and three others were lightly injured Wednesday morning when a scaffold collapsed at a construction site on Bnei Efraim Street in Tel Aviv.
Around 9:30 am police and Magen David Adom received a report regarding a scaffold that collapsed in a five-story building at the corner of Leah and Bnei Efraim streets in Tel Aviv's Neot Afeka neighborhood.
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Magen David Adom teams treated the three injured workers while firefighters rescued a laborer trapped between the scaffolds. The four were transferred to the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
The Ministry of Social Affairs and the Yarkon district police are investigating whether the incident occurred as a result of negligence.
The police investigation revealed that those injured and an additional 13 laborers are Palestinian illegal aliens. Theworkers and their employer were taken in for questioning.
Rescue teams evacuate injured laborers (Photo: Yaron Brener)
Two weeks ago a construction worker was killed and 10 others were injured when a scaffold fell on them from the 10th floor of a Netanya building.
Magen David Adom teams from the Sharon region evacuated six moderately injured and four lightly injured people. The man who died was identified as Mahmuoud Mahajana age 23 from Umm al-Fahm.
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