Indonesia Stock Exchange floor collapse leaves dozens injured
The second floor of the Indonesia Stock Exchange building has collapsed, an exchange employee said, injuring dozens of people under a shower of glass and other debris.
Main points:
- 72 people were injured, Jakarta police confirmed
- Collapse not caused by a bomb, police official said
- It appeared mezzanine floor fell on a crowded reception area, ABC News correspondent said
Jakarta police reported that 72 people were injured in the incident.
A spokeswoman for Jakarta's Siloam Hospital said that they have received 28 victims from the exchange, and the seriousness of their injuries was being assessed.
According to a college student who was visiting the stock exchange said she felt a tremor just before a mezzanine floor collapsed into the building's lobby, with the debris hitting and injuring some of her friends.
"We were visiting the Jakarta stock exchange as part of our study tour when the structure suddenly collapsed, causing chaos," the student, identified as Ade from Palembang in Sumatra, told Metro TV.
Some of her friends had head wounds and broken bones.
Floor collapse 'not because of a bomb'
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The building is one of a two-tower complex which was targeted in a car bombing by Islamist militants in September 2000.
Dozens of police officials cordoned off the multi-storey complex as many people ran away and others were seen sitting on steps outside the lobby.
"The second floor of the building has collapsed," said Vindy, a personal assistant to exchange president Tito Sulistio, who was in the building at the time.
Megha Kapoor, who works in the building and was in the lobby at the time, said: "Slabs of concrete started to fall, there was lots of dust. Water pipes had burst."
She said there had been a group of high school students on the level when it started collapsing.
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