Elevator Collapse in the Philippines Kills Two, Injures Two

Two persons were killed and two were injured after an elevator being repaired collapsed inside a building in Makati City in the National Capital Region of the Philippines on July 8, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) said in a report by GMA News Online and other outlets. Based on a preliminary report from NCRPO, an elevator car fell from the 38th floor to the basement while the victims were fixing the elevator on the sixth floor. Two rescue trucks from Makati’s Special Rescue Forces and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management team, as well as three ambulances, responded to the incident. A rescue and retrieval operation was conducted, the Bureau of Fire Protection said. At the time of the report by the source, Scene of the Crime Operatives were processing the scene.