Crumbling West Side Building Critically Injures Passersby

Two pedestrians were critically injured on the city's West Side Monday evening after bricks from a crumbling building fell and struck them.

The incident occurred around 4:45 p.m. in the 700 block of South Kenneth Avenue in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood, according to an NBC report, which cited the Chicago Fire Department.

"A witness who lives on the block told NBC5 that he heard a loud boom followed by screaming, and that the two victims, both women, were not in the building, but were walking on the sidewalk when they were hit," the story said.

The bleeding women were hospitalized and listed in critical condition.