Five detained over elevator crash

Five people have been detained in connection with an elevator accident that killed 19 people on Thursday at the site of an apartment project in Hubei province, local police said.

The people who were detained work for four companies that were building the apartment project, were supervising the work at the site or had installed the elevator, police added.

The accident occurred on Thursday when the elevator the workers were in plummeted 34 floors to the ground.