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| Sheffield city centre building collapse prompts rescues | Sheffield city centre building collapse prompts rescues |
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| Four people have been rescued after a three-storey building collapsed in Sheffield city centre. | Four people have been rescued after a three-storey building collapsed in Sheffield city centre. |
| The mid-terrace building, in Brook Hill, came down at about 14:30 GMT. | The mid-terrace building, in Brook Hill, came down at about 14:30 GMT. |
| South Yorkshire Fire Service confirmed that after the four were rescued, no-one else was found in the rubble. | |
| "A middle section of a row of shops, with flats above, has completely collapsed," a spokesman said. No-one is thought to have suffered any serious injuries. | "A middle section of a row of shops, with flats above, has completely collapsed," a spokesman said. No-one is thought to have suffered any serious injuries. |
| There was no explosion or fire at the scene, the fire service said. | |
| Empty restaurant destroyed | |
| "We had crews on scene very quickly and they were faced with a huge hole in the middle of the three-storey terraced building," said incident commander Stuart Nicholson. | |
| "The first and second floors had collapsed onto the ground floor." | |
| A man and a woman, understood to have been living in one of the flats, were taken to Northern General Hospital. Their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. | |
| The other two casualties did not need hospital treatment; fire service believes they are workmen who were working on the property at the time of the collapse. | |
| A ground floor restaurant that was destroyed in the collapse, was no longer in use. |