Two dead as stand collapses at synagogue in Israeli settlement
Al Jazeera
More than 150 also injured after bleacher collapses at an uncompleted synagogue in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli medics said at least two people were killed and more than 150 injured after a bleacher collapsed at an uncompleted synagogue in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the eve of a major Jewish holiday. The bleacher was packed with ultra-Orthodox worshippers and collapsed during prayers at the beginning of Shavuot. A spokesman for Magen David Adom told Channel 13 that paramedics had treated more than 157 people for injuries and pronounced two dead, a man in his 50s and a 12-year-old boy. Rescue workers were on the scene, treating the injured and taking people to the hospital. The collapse comes weeks after 45 ultra-Orthodox Jews were killed in a stampede at a religious festival in northern Israel.
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