[Video below.] A grate collapsed this morning at Yeshiva Shaare Torah Girls School in Flatbush, Brooklyn, injuring more than two dozen students. Officials say at least five students at the school were taken to hospitals, two of them with serious injuries. Fire officials say 27 other students were being treated on the scene for non-life-threatening injuries. Officials say the students, all girls aged 10 to 12, were lined up at the grate for picture day. The cause of the collapse is under investigation.
The school has about 260 students in grades first through eighth. The building is located on Ocean Parkway, at Church Avenue, near the Prospect Expressway.
Click below to view a video of rescue workers at the scene:
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{Elisha Ferber-Matzav.com Newscenter}
Please Daven for these Shaare girls:
Aliza bat Shoshana
Frida bat Esther
Rivka bat Penina
Esther bat Sharon
Miriam bat Esther
Kayla bat Simona
Batya bat Esther
Aliza bat Alison
Please daven for the two girls currently undergoing surgery at Lutheran Medical Center.
Is watching TV no problem for Frum pepole ?.
school is at church ave @ ocean pkway
not a problem
nothing wrong with tv without smutz
this is a jewish news story
i hope you feel better
thatk you sherly my fav cousin
i was apart of the grate falling
that was the scariest thing that ever happened to me i still have the newspaper and the everything they gave me before i went to the hospital it was scary but thatk hashem i saw someone getting out by climbing the part that was tilting and i climbed and fell on the floor right away because i fratured my ancle thatnk you