AMBULANCE crews have rushed to a busy bar after its upstairs floor collapsed – leaving punters trapped in the rubble.
Police, fire and ambulance crews are currently dealing with the situation at Two More Years in Hackney Wick, North London after the mezzanine fell at 4.45pm this evening.
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It is not yet known how many people have been injured.
A spokesman for Met Police said: “Police were called by the London Ambulance Service at 16:47hrs on Saturday, 12 February, to reports of a partial building collapse at a pub on Roach Road.
“Emergency services are in attendance.”
A man who was in the venue at the time said: “There was just this sort of cracking sort of noise and dust started coming down.
“Me and my friend just ran to the side and the whole thing just came down in a matter of seconds.”
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The man said it was lucky that there were not more people sitting directly under the mezzanine floor that came down.
He saw one person being brought out on a stretcher and put into an ambulance, but he said most of the injured appeared to have cuts and bruises rather than anything serious.
London Ambulance Service tweeted: “We were called at 4:44pm to Roach Road, Hackney Wick, to reports that part of a building had collapsed.
“We have sent a number of resources to the scene. Crews are treating patients at the scene and are working closely with emergency services colleagues.”
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