One person killed and two others wounded in the collapse of a tunnel at a power plant in northern Israel | News from the world



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A man was killed and two others were injured when a tunnel collapsed on Friday in an underground construction.

At least eight workers were briefly trapped 50 meters underground in the Ma-Gilboa tunnel near Beit Shean. in the incident, when an overhead crane fell over

Workers were building an underground hydroelectric facility on the site, which works by pumping water from a low tank to a station at the top of Mount Gilboa, then let it spill into an underground waterfall on a large turbine, generating additional electricity for the national grid.

The wounded men, both in their thirties, were evacuated helicopter to Haemek Hospital in Afula. Ambulances, mobile intensive care units and a helicopter were scrambled at the site.

Police opened an investigation into the accident.

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