Teen girl falls down manhole on main street in Jerusalem

PEDESTRIANS CROSS the Jerusalem Mild Rail tracks on Jaffa Road.

(portray credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)

A teen girl fell down a 2-meter deep manhole whereas aimlessly crossing Jaffa street in Jerusalem Sunday afternoon.

“She ethical fell straight down!” acknowledged an unnerved construction worker at the positioning. “She changed into once crossing the street diagonally, no longer at the crossings, and had her head buried in her tablet. She ethical did now not gape where she changed into once going, and slipped.”

The girl who changed into once crossing in direction of the gentle rail station changed into once accompanied by a chum, who at once came to her abet along with just a few bystanders. Within minutes, the teen changed into once pulled out of the outlet, shaken but unharmed besides a deep laceration to her leg.

“I am fine, I ethical can not mediate this took put,” she repeated. After receiving initial therapy from bystanders, the girl changed into once moved to the nearby Terem Emergency Scientific Heart.

Folks considered walking on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem (credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)

The section of main Jaffo street between the Jerusalem Central Station and Mahaneh Yehuda market is undergoing reconstruction for the past just a few weeks. The explicit strip of avenue where the incident came about changed into once no longer fenced off in anyway, in uncover to enable free passage to buildings on every side of the street.

Following the tournament, the construction workers at the positioning are rearranging their equipment in uncover to dam off the manhole and other unhealthy areas. “She changed into once okay, she changed into once laughing inside the outlet,” acknowledged the worker, “but it unquestionably would possibly perchance maybe perchance were loads worse.”