One dead, 24 injured in Tel Aviv building collapse

Tel Aviv :  A building collapse at a construction site in Israel's commercial capital Tel Aviv on Monday killed one person and wounded 24, with several others trapped in rubble, police and medics said.

Police earlier reported at least seven people trapped in the collapse at an underground car park, but it was unclear if some had since been rescued and were included in the new toll from medical service Magen David Adom.

Details were still emerging of the incident at the construction site in northeastern Tel Aviv where an underground car park collapsed.

Police reported 18 wounded, including one seriously, one moderately and 16 lightly. 

At least three others were trapped, and contact had been made with two of them, police said.

The army said it sent search and rescue forces to "extract civilians".

United Hatzalah medical service also said "firefighters and rescue teams are working to extricate" those believed missing.

"It appeared to me that the roof of a parking garage had collapsed in the building site," United Hatzalah quoted one of its medics as saying.

"While members of our ambu-cycle unit who arrived first on scene were treating the injured, reports came in of other people who were unaccounted for and likely still trapped inside."

Images of the scene showed an underground car park that had caved in and dozens of rescue workers and security forces at the site in Tel Aviv's Ramat Hahayal neighbourhood.

Ramat Hahayal is home to a number of high-tech offices in Israel's booming technology industry.