(Yahoonews.com) PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A building that was being torn down collapsed with a thunderous boom Wednesday, raining bricks on a neighboring thrift store, killing a woman and injuring at least 13 other people in an accident that witnesses said was bound to happen.
The woman who died was 35 years old, the mayor said, but no other information about her was released.
Rescuers pulled another woman, trapped amid the rubble of aSalvation Army thrift store, after they heard her voice, city fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said, and the search for survivors continued hours after the 10:45 a.m. collapse on the edge of downtown.
Rescuers used buckets and their bare hands to move bricks and rubble.
"We do not know how many people were actually in the thrift store this morning when the wall collapsed on the building," Mayor Michael Nutter said late Wednesday afternoon.
Survivors were taken to hospitals with minor injuries, Ayers said.
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