Falling Concrete Kills 6
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HONG KONG — Six people were crushed to death in Hong Kong and five were injured when a concrete building ledge crashed to the pavement, police said Saturday. It took firefighters about an hour to free those trapped beneath the 32-yard-long, 3-yard-wide ledge after it fell from an industrial building on the Kowloon peninsula Friday evening.
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