One dead, one hurt after Montgomery Mall construction collapse

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A 50,000-pound beam collapsed on the third deck of a mall parking garage, killing one man working on the second floor and trapping another for hours.

As crews labored on a new parking garage at the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, a center concrete panel collapsed at about 1:45 p.m. Thursday. About 20 other construction workers were working on the structure at the time.

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