Scaffolding collapses in downtown Boston

A construction scaffold collapsed in downtown Boston Monday, killing three people and injuring two.

The Boston Herald reported debris fell from the 14th floor of a building under construction at Emerson College on Boylston Street. Two of the dead were walking by while the third was in a car.

"I looked up and saw it falling. It was falling slow at first," a witness told the Herald. "There was a construction worker lying on the ground and he was in a pool of blood."

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