One person has died and three others were injured after the roof of a Family Dollar store came crashing down in Kansas City, Missouri on Sunday afternoon.
Emergency officials rushed to the store at 3726 Broadway Boulevard around 2:45pm following reports of a building collapse, according to the Kansas City Fire Department.
When they arrived on the scene, firefighters found the store’s front had partially caved in.
Debris was tumbling down onto customers and workers inside, with videos from the aftermath showing part of the roof and front façade missing at what appeared to be the main entrance of the store, with brick, stone and wood debris on the ground.
Tragically, a 68-year-old man was killed in the accident and a 50-year-old woman was seriously injured, and had to be transported to a local hospital.
Two others were treated on the scene and refused additional treatment.
Fire Department Battalion Chief Mike Hopkins said the man who died may have been walking by the building at the time of the collapse.
KMBC-TV reported that a public inspection record said that someone reported Friday that the building had begun ‘slowly tilting.’ Authorities did not yet have an explanation for the collapse.
This is a developing story.