Worker dies after falling onto highway from Tel Aviv pedestrian bridge

A man died on Monday morning after he apparently fell from a bridge over the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv.

According to medics, the man was performing some kind of work on the pedestrian bridge between the Hashalom train station and the Azrieli Mall.

Police said they opened an investigation into the circumstances of the man’s death and that he was around 40 years old.

According to Channel 13 news, the man landed on a vehicle on the highway, close to the Hashalom interchange.

Passerby Gedalyah Reback said that at around 9:30 a.m. the man fell through a glass barrier on the bridge.

He said that people tried to help the man as they waited for emergency services to arrive.

Medics said the man was unconscious and taken to hospital with multiple severe injuries, where teams continued to work to resuscitate him.

Police later announced that the man had died.