Rescue personnel search the scene of a building collapse in downtown Philadelphia Wednesday June 5, 2013. /AP PHOTO/JACQUELINE LARMA
Updated at 11:45 p.m. Eastern
PHILADELPHIAA building that was being torn down collapsed with a thunderous boom Wednesday, raining bricks on a neighboring thrift store, killing six people and injuring at least 13 others in an accident that witnesses said was bound to happen.
A somber Mayor Michael Nutter said those who died were one man and five women but authorities still didn't know how many people had been in the store or on the sidewalk when the accident happened.
Early reports had been that one woman had died in the Wednesday morning accident, but rescuers using buckets and their bare hands to move bricks and rubble kept working through the evening, removing body bags at night. Nutter said the city's emergency workers had been "diligent, determined, focused" in their rescue efforts.
"If anyone else is in that building, they will find them," he said.
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