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DALLAS — A construction crane collapsed into an apartment building in downtown Dallas Sunday afternoon amid severe weather, killing one woman and injuring five others, according to news reports.
Video showing inside the apartment building. The crane fell through the parking garage. Woman who shot this says her neighbor broke his neck pic.twitter.com/IHkeSEaLXi
— Allison Harris (@AllisonFox4News) June 9, 2019
The crane, pushed over by strong winds, crashed into the five-story Elan City Lights apartment complex as high winds whipped through the area Sunday afternoon, KXAS-TV reported.
Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans told the Dallas Morning News that the crane toppled into the building, ripping a large hole in the side, according to The Associated Press. It also damaged an adjacent parking garage and some of the vehicles in it.
One woman was found dead after rescue crews searched the damaged building.
Dallas fire rescue: Wall suffered significant damage in crane collapse.
— CNN Newsource (@CNNNewsource) June 9, 2019
SE-010SU pic.twitter.com/G6OI2kSKgY
Some of the victims in the accident were taken to Parkland Hospital and others to Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas Fire-Rescue officials said.
Of the five victims, two were critically injured, KXAS reported.
The accident happened during a severe thunder storm watch in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area.
Nearby residents captured video of the moment the crane collapsed.
Video of the moment the crane collapsed onto the apartment building in Deep Ellum in Dallas. From Soph Daigle pic.twitter.com/CGI6wCFApv
— Allison Harris (@AllisonFox4News) June 9, 2019
NEW VIDEO from an eyewitness at the apartment complex on the east side of the Dallas skyline badly damaged by a falling crane in this afternoon’s severe thunderstorm. (Warning about the language.) pic.twitter.com/6hKUGFEUOy
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) June 9, 2019
High winds also damaged a hangar door and a section of the roof at a Southwest Airlines maintenance facility at Dallas Love Field, WFAA-TV reported.
#TXSkyRanger is at #LoveField looking at the damage done to a @SouthwestAir hanger. #StormDamage #dfwwx #NBCDFWWeather pic.twitter.com/xGQ5MAEomb
— Meteorologist Brian James (@BrianJamesWx) June 9, 2019
A crane fell over in an apt. complex in downtown dallas from the storm. pic.twitter.com/A1w0JYjLGC
— Franklin Campbell (@beebellfrank) June 9, 2019
A construction crane collapsed on an apartment building in Dallas as severe storms swept through the area https://t.co/nSA2lZQrLB pic.twitter.com/PgAsEsOnfW
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 9, 2019
Check back for more on this developing story.
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