Ottawa: Some people died when the construction crane collapsed on Monday because it was dismantled at the location of the 25-storey city center condominium project in Kelowna, British Columbia police said, police said.
Videos and photos of scenes show that the crane section is upright, which has been used to build a residential tower, still stand, but the remnants of the boom are filled with several adjacent buildings.
Authorities ordered the evacuation of the building near the location and put the area under the emergency Monday night.
Inspector Adam Macintosh, The Action Officer responsible for the Royal Canadian police detachment installed in Kelowna, the popular tourist destination in the Okanagan Valley, said that there was a “some confined fatality,” but he refused to say how many people died or.
Provide information about them.
Macintosh told reporters that Crane collapsed around 11 o’clock in the morning, damaging the nearest office building and leaving debris on the roof of a long-term care house.
The evacuation took place when the engineers began to assess damage to the building and the remaining stability of the crane.
At a press conference, Jonathan Friesen, chief executive of the mission group, the real estate company developed the property, said that around 100 people worked on the site at the time of collapse.
Friesen said that the victims were all subcontractor employees, not their company.
“They are on our site and as a result of their work, they lose their lives,” he said.
Macintosh said that officers were investigating the loss of one person who was not part of the construction crew.
Krista Roessing, a resident of Kelowna, told Canadian Broadcasting Corp that he was driving through the site during the collapse.
“It looks like a crane moves but then I realize that it doesn’t move in the mode where it is operating – it goes down,” he said.
The collapse caused the loss of electricity to several downtown buildings, including police detachments.
Because the collapse is an industrial accident, said Macintosh, an investigation will be led by provincial bodies that provide workplace insurance and which set safety standards.