By Associated Press - Tuesday, May 5, 2015

NEW YORK (AP) - A construction worker has died after falling more than 20 stories down an elevator shaft in midtown Manhattan.

Authorities say it happened shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday at a building under construction at West 46th Street and Eighth Avenue.

The unidentified worker was taken to Bellevue hospital where he was pronounced dead.

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