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NEW YORK - A window washer clung to life Saturday after plummeting more than 40 stories from a skyscraper in a fall that killed his brother.
A scaffold broke free from the top of a Manhattan apartment tower Friday morning, sending Alcides Moreno, 37, and Edgar Moreno, 30, on a plunge to a plaza below.
Edgar was killed. Alcides remained hospitalised at New York Weill Cornell Medical Centre. A spokeswoman Saturday declined to release details on his condition, at the family's request.
The brothers were not wearing their safety harnesses when they fell from the swing scaffold, which was a permanent fixture on the 47-story building's roof.
The city Department of Buildings was investigating several issues in the accident, including whether the men were on the scaffold when it fell or trying to fasten cables to it when the hoist fell off the building.
A call to the City Wide Window Cleaning, which employed the brothers, was not returned Saturday.
- AP
