Washington, DC building collapses, trapping one person and injuring several others

A building under construction in Washington, DC, collapsed during a severe storm (Pictures: Reuters/AP)

A five-story building under construction in Washington, DC, collapsed amid a storm, trapping one person and injuring several others.

The building, which was under construction, fell on Thursday afternoon, a week after a 12-story condo in the Miami area partially collapsed and left more than 150 people dead or unaccounted for.

First responders arrived at the 900 block of Kennedy Street NW around 3.30pm. Firefighters sawed through layers of debris for more than an hour to free a construction worker who was trapped underneath. A DC Fire and EMS special operations team talked the man through the rescue effort, Fire Chief John Donnelly said, according to News4.

The trapped man cried ‘ow, ow’, as firefighters pulled him out of the rubble onto a sled and into an ambulance, according to News4’s Shomari Stone.

‘We do not know what caused the collapse, but there was a severe storm passing the area,’ a DC Fire and EMS spokesperson told Fox News. ‘Two structures to the right suffered some damage secondary to the collapse and a vacant structure to the right suffered major damage.’

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