Forty people were injured after a section of floor at a packed nightclub on Spain’s holiday island of Tenerife collapsed Sunday, sending revellers plunging into the basement, officials said.
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Rescuers rushed to the Butterfly Disco Club in Adeje at about 2.30am after four-square-metre section of its floor gave way.
The injured included two French men aged 38 and 40, two British men aged 57 and 59, a 45-year-old Romanian man, and a 23-year-old Belgian woman, the regional government of Spain’s Canary Islands said in a statement.
The view from a lower floor shows the collapsed floor of the Butterfly Disco Club in Adeje on Spain's holiday island of Tenerife. Photo: Agence France-Presse
“After the floor collapsed, the people who were inside fell to the basement from the height of approximately one floor,” it said.
Video posted by the local fire service on Twitter showed firefighters picking through rubble with their hands in the basement of the nightclub located in a shopping mall.
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Firefighters remained at the scene until 6am to search the basement in case anyone was trapped inside.
