08-07-2016 00:00 via west-midlands.police.uk

Recovery process continues after fatal scrap yard wall collapse

A joint emergency services operation continues today at the site of a Nechells scrap metal yard where five men died following a wall collapse.West Midlands Police investigators are working with specialist fire colleagues and the Health and Safety Executive in a bid to understand what led to a concrete structure - comprising of 1.5-tonne blocks - giving way at the Hawkesley Metal recycling plant.All five men are understood to be from the local Gambian community and were agency staff working at th
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