3 missing after crane collapses into building

RESCUERS in New York city were last night trying to find three people missing after a crane smashed into a townhouse in Manhattan on Saturday afternoon, killing at least four construction workers and injuring 17.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that two other workers and a woman who was visiting the townhouse remained missing.

The four dead were all believed to be working on a new high-rise condo building, killed on the job in what Mr Bloomberg called one of the city’s worst construction accidents.