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Josh Luckhurst

Man dies after being trapped under five-tonne concrete slab for seven hours

A man has died after being trapped under a five-tonne concrete slab for more than seven hours.

Jose Pereira, 43, who worked for Ferguson Construction Inc., was first trapped under the concrete slab at around 2.30pm on Friday after an eighth-floor balcony collapsed onto the seventh floor in the Spinnaker Condominium Complex in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, US

The building was reportedly built in the 1970s.

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