Woman Hit By Falling Bricks In East London Dies

The 29-year-old was injured on Tuesday.
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A 29-year-old woman who was injured after being hit by bricks which fell from a building site in east London on Tuesday has died.

Scotland Yard said: “The woman died in hospital at 10:40hrs on Thursday, 29 March. Her next of kin have been informed.

“Formal identification awaits. A post-mortem examination will take place in due course.”

The woman has been named in the press as Kayla Boor, a mother-of-two, who turned 29 while she was in hospital. She had reportedly just become engaged to her partner of four years before the accident.

A crowd-funder for her father Matthew Boor has been started by his employers Maytrix Construction. By Thursday afternoon it had raised close to £3,000.

Pedestrians on Burdett Road, Tower Hamlets, caught the aftermath of the accident on video, shortly after the woman was hit with what appeared to be a pallet of bricks while walking next to the construction site for a new housing development.

Officers attended the scene at 9.38am on Tuesday, where bystanders were helping the woman who had been spotted lying in a pile of rubble and broken wood.

The London Ambulance Service later took her to an east London hospital and a man at the scene was treated for shock.

Officers from Tower Hamlets CID are investigating in consultation with the Health and Safety Executive.

Mile End building collapse on Burdett road ... pic.twitter.com/Dtrgf9bULD

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