Irbid, A 47-year-old construction worker was killed on Monday after an under-construction warehouse building collapsed in the al-Rafid area of the Bani Kinana district, north of Irbid.
Governor of the Bani Kinana district Abdul Rahman al-Rababa’a told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the Civil Defense Department’s personnel rushed to the scene, extracted the man from under the rubble and attempted to resuscitate him to no avail.
The body, he added, was transferred to the forensic medicine center in the northern region, and an investigation into the incident is underway.
SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY