A building collapsed at a building site in Ballito, Durban resulting in the death of one man while another was critically injured shortly before 5pm yesterday.
According to IPSS Medical Rescue’s Paul Herbst the tragedy occurred when what appeared to be a trench collapsed on four workers at the construction site behind the Ballito Junction.
“Two of the men managed to free themselves, one of whom privately went to hospital,” Herbst said.
Meanwhile, workers at the site began frantically trying to dig the two remaining men out before emergency personnel arrived and joined the rescue effort.
One of the two remaining men trapped in the sand was rescued alive but is currently seriously injured, while the other died on the scene.
“Paramedics stabalised the critically injured man before he was airlifted to hospital by the Black Eagle/IPSS emergency response helicopter.”
-North Coast Courier
