Five men have been crushed to death after a huge concrete wall collapsed at a recycling site in Birmingham. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Emergency services at the scene where five men died after a wall collapsed at Hawkeswood Metal Recycling in Birmingham. Photograph: Richard Vernalls/PAIn February there was a large fire at the 700-tonne scrap metal recycling plant. Police were called to Hawkeswood Metal Recycling in the Nechells area of the city on Thursday morning after receiving reports that a wall had collapsed. Slav Angiyu, a 43-year-old truck driver who was on the site when the accident happened, said: “We were reloading the recycling metal into containers which will go to China.

Source: The Guardian July 07, 2016 12:30 UTC