5 killed in industrial accident at UK metal recycling site
LONDON — Five men were killed Thursday in an accident at a scrap metal recycling plant in central England, British police said.
West Midlands Police said officers were called by the ambulance service to reports of a wall collapse at Hawkeswood Metal in Birmingham, the country’s second-largest city.
Five men were pronounced dead at the scene. A sixth man was taken to a local hospital with leg injuries that were not said to be life-threatening. Police said the men were foreign nationals originally from Africa.
“Sadly, there was nothing that could be done to save the five men,” said Murray MacGregor of the West Midlands Ambulance Service.