Pallet of Bricks falls five storeys from a crane and lands on top of a young woman
A young woman was today fighting for her life
after being crushed under a pallet of bricks which fell five storeys from a
crane. Bricks could be seen scattered around the victim
as she lay on the pavement with bystanders giving her first aid (left and top
right) next a building site in Mile End, East London.
Paramedics took the woman to hospital with severe
injuries after the incident at about 9.30am today outside Bow Corner, a new
development of luxury flats. Witness Aladdin Rahman said: 'My friend who's a
bus driver and was driving a bus at the time it happened, said that some bricks
had fallen on the woman.
Several people were trying to get to the lady and so were the construction workers. It was a hectic scene at the time.' Police officers in Tower Hamlets and the London Ambulance Service were called at 9.38am to the incident, another victim was also taken to hospital.
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