Fallen elevator kills five in RP

Fallen elevator kills five in RP

MANILA (AFP): Five construction workers plunged to their
deaths here yesterday after a service elevator fell seven stories
at a building site in the Makati financial district, a hospital
official said.

"According to the ones who brought the patients in here, these
construction workers were aboard a service elevator and it fell
from the seventh floor down to the ground," Makati Medical Center
doctor Gabriel Gabriel said.

"All of them were dead on arrival. They suffered severe head
injuries," Gabriel said over radio station DZMM.