Two people are dead and more than 100 injured after a grandstand in a West Bank synagogue under construction collapsed at the start of a Jewish holiday.
The tiers were packed with hundreds of ultra-Orthodox worshippers when they fell during prayers at ceremony to mark the beginning of Shavuot today.
A 12-year-old boy and a man in his 50s have been pronounced dead and paramedics are treating at least 157 people for injuries, according to Israeli authorities.
The disaster comes just two weeks after 45 pilgrims were crushed to death in a stampede at the burial site of a Jewish sage in northern Israel.
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