Limerick man killed at New York construction site

A forty-year-old Munster man has died in a freak accident on a construction site in the US.

Trevor Loftus, from Pallaskenry, Co Limerick, died after a crane arm collapsed at a work site in New York City.

It is understood he was unloading materials from a truck when the accident occurred and became pinned under the malfunctioning arm of the boom crane.