Israeli medics evacuate an injured ultra-Orthodox Jewish man after the collapse of grandstand seating at a synagogue. (AFP)
JERUSALEM: At the very least two worshippers had been killed and greater than 100 injured on Sunday when a grandstand collapsed in a synagogue beneath development in a Jewish settlement within the occupied West Financial institution, Israel‘s nationwide ambulance service mentioned.
The accident in Givat Zeev, simply north of Jerusalem, raised extra questions on security measures at massive ultra-Orthodox occasions, two weeks after 45 pilgrims had been crushed to loss of life in a stampede on the burial web site of a Jewish sage in northern Israel.
A police spokesman mentioned 650 worshippers had been on the Givat worship web site for the beginning of the Jewish vacation of Shavuot.
The occasion was held in {a partially} constructed synagogue. The native mayor and senior hearth brigade and cops mentioned it had gone forward regardless of the shortage of a allow and official warnings that the constructing zone was unsafe.
A spokesman for the Magen David Adom ambulance service mentioned a minimum of two individuals had been killed. Ambulances and navy helicopters ferried the injured to hospitals.
Safety footage broadcast on Channel 12 TV confirmed a crowded grandstand collapsing and worshippers falling on prime of one another.
“We had been referred to as once more to a different occasion the place there was negligence and an absence of duty. There will likely be arrests,” Jerusalem District police chief Doron Turgeman mentioned from the scene, on reside TV.
FbTwitterLinkedinEMail