Posted May 16, 2012, 1:44 PM
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Man in induced coma after struck by falling bricks in downtown Montreal
By JAN RAVENSBERGEN and ALLISON LAMPERT, The Gazette
A passerby views the bricks scattered on the sidewalk on Bleury St. after they tumbled off a building late Tuesday, striking a man and sending him to hospital.
Photograph by: Dario Ayala, The Gazette
Traffic is diverted past the pile of masonry that tumbled off a Bleury St. building late Tuesday. A man was in a medically induced coma Wednesday after suffering head injuries when he was struck by the falling bricks.
Photograph by: Dario Ayala, The Gazette
Bricks fell from this facade of a building on Bleury St. late Tuesday, May 16, 2012, severely injuring a male pedestrian.
Photograph by: Dario Ayala, THE GAZETTE
MONTREAL - A man who was severely injured by bricks that fell from a downtown building late Tuesday remained in an artificially induced coma, Montreal police Constable Anie Lemieux said Wednesday morning.
"He is in very serious condition," she added shortly after 6 a.m.
The man was walking on Bleury St., south of Sherbrooke St. W., when he was struck by falling masonry about 11:30 p.m., Lemieux added.
He suffered "severe head injuries" and unspecified wounds "to his hip area," she said.
Lemieux said she was unable to provide even an approximate age for the victim: "He has not been identified."
Inspectors have been called in to investigate, she said.
A resident who lives near the site said he heard a loud noise about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and immediately rushed to the corner of Sherbrooke and Bleury Sts. The man, who spoke on condition that his name not be printed, said he saw that a lintel on the building had collapsed, which led to the bricks falling down. The aging building has about eight residential units located above a gymnasium downstairs, he said.
The resident said he saw a man on the sidewalk who'd been hit and injured by the bricks. At that point, the victim was conscious as ambulance technicians treated him.
The witness would not speculate as to why the bricks would have fallen, but noted that the city had been doing extensive construction work on a water main across the street.
janr@montrealgazette.com
alampert@montrealgazette.com
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