“Fatalities and Injuries Reported as NYC Parking Lot Collapses”

par Natasha Ribeiro et Tyler Clifford

NEW YORK, April 19 (Reuters) – At least one person was killed and five others injured when a four-story parking lot collapsed in New York on Tuesday, authorities said.

The emergency services used robots to intervene on the scene of the incident, the instability of the structure having forced the firefighters to stop their intervention.

Authorities, however, said they believed all the victims had been found.

The criminal track is not retained.

“We have no reason to believe this is anything other than a meltdown,” New York City Police Chief Keechant Sewell said.

Six employees of the parking lot, located in the financial district in Manhattan, were at the scene when the building collapsed.

One of them was killed and five others were taken to hospital. The sixth refused to receive treatment.

According to records from the New York City Department of Buildings, the department responsible for issuing building permits, accessible online, the parking lot had been reported for 45 violations, including 25 since 2003.

(With contributions from Kanishka Singh and Jasper Ward, written by Steve Gorman; French version Camille Raynaud)