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Floor collapses at stock exchange in Indonesia, injuring dozens Scores injured after floor collapses at Indonesian stock exchange
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Police say part of first floor gave way, sending debris crashing to ground level Police say collapse of Jakarta building’s mezzanine level, which injured at least 75 people, was an accident
Agence France-Presse in JakartaAgence France-Presse in Jakarta
Mon 15 Jan 2018 08.11 GMTMon 15 Jan 2018 08.11 GMT
First published on Mon 15 Jan 2018 06.02 GMTFirst published on Mon 15 Jan 2018 06.02 GMT
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A floor at Indonesia’s stock exchange has collapsed into the building’s lobby, injuring at least 50 people. At least 75 people have been injured after a mezzanine floor at Indonesia’s stock exchange building collapsed.
Part of the floor on the first level gave way, sending debris crashing on to the ground level, a Jakarta police spokesman said, adding that it was an accident and not an explosion. Victims were carried out on stretchers. CCTV footage showed a group of 40 visiting students on a balcony section plunge as the floor gave way with a cascade of glass, metal and other material crashing on to the ground floor where several others were walking.
The director of the Indonesian stock exchange, Tito Sulistio, said those injured had been sent to hospital. They had mostly sustained injuries to their legs and arms. A Jakarta police spokesman said the collapse was an accident and not the result of an explosion.
Figures given by spokespeople for three hospitals showed 52 people were injured. National police spokesman Setyo Wasisto told AFP 75 people had been injured. There were no reports of deaths so far.
“The accident happened at the first floor … It’s a floor where many employees are passing by … There are some victims but they have been taken to a nearby hospital,” the Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono told reporters. Television images showed chaotic scenes as victims were taken to hospital or lay on the ground outside the tower complex in the centre of the city’s business district.
Television footage showed several people lying on the ground and being carried outside the building, with crowds of panicked and screaming people being evacuated amid piles of debris. “I saw many people bleeding,” student Rizki Noviandi, who was taking part in a competition at the exchange building, told Metro TV.
Despite the chaos, the stock exchange spokesman Rheza Andhika said trade had continued as usual in the afternoon session. “So many people were carried out of the building and were left on the grass outside … until the ambulances arrived.”
The accident happened shortly after noon local time (0500 GMT) while the market was on its lunchtime break. Hundreds of employees were evacuated from the complex, which was bombed by Islamist militants in 2000. At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb in that attack.
“There was a lound banging so people who were inside immediately ran outside of the building,” said the Metro TV journalist Marlia Zein, who was on the scene. “Our search and rescue teams, the police, doctors, the firefighters are all still working,” Wasisto said. “They are cleaning the debris and also searching for other possible injuries.”
The Indonesia stock exchange is in the centre of Jakarta, and the local office of the World Bank is also housed on the 12th floor of the complex, according to its website. Most of the injuries were to arms and legs, including broken bones, a spokesman for one local hospital said.
In 2000, powerful plastic explosives packed in the trunk of an old car caused a blast at the exchange building, leaving 15 people dead and several injured. Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono added: “The accident happened at the first floor … It’s a floor where many employees are passing by.”
The collapse took place in one of the complex’s two towers.
“There was a sound, like something had fallen off a building structure, for about 20 seconds. Everyone was panicking and people were immediately being evacuated,” Amailia Putri Hasniawati, a journalist based at the exchange, told AFP.
It was not immediately clear what caused the accident at the tower in Sudirman district, which was built in 1995.
“Material degradation could be the cause,” Iswandi Imran, a construction expert, told local TV. “It could be corrosion or anything which slowly degrades the strength of the structure so it cannot take the weight any longer. But all that has to be investigated.”
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