One person died when the walls of a construction site in Blainville, Que., collapsed on Tuesday, sending parked cars and other material falling into a pit.
Images from the scene showed that one of the walls of a construction pit, where workers had been building the foundation for a new shopping centre on Michèle-Bohec Boulevard, collapsed inward around 11 a.m.
Multiple vehicles that had been parked near the lip of the pit fell into it as the wall collapsed.
Emergency services, including firefighters and multiple ambulances, rushed to the scene.
Blainville police told Radio-Canada that in addition to the death, three people had been injured. One of them was treated on site, another was transported to the hospital with a leg injury and one person who had to be rescued from the pit was also transported to the hospital to be treated for shock.
It was not immediately clear if there were more injuries.
