The second floor overlooking Indonesia’s stock exchange fell out from under dozens of people Monday, burying others beneath slabs of concrete, Reuters reports.
At least 30 people were hospitalized after the incident, and as many as 77 people were injured, according to the New York Daily News.
“There was a rumbling noise but it wasn’t an explosion. It was like something had fallen, and suddenly the floor we were standing on fell away,” a 20-year-old student, who suffered light bruising, told Reuters.
WATCH: A second-story floor collapses underneath dozens of people at Indonesia’s stock exchanging — sending them plummeting to the floor below pic.twitter.com/ePcTT1JvdO
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Hundreds of high school students were visiting the stock exchange when the second floor collapsed. A group was standing on the level when it collapsed, The Telegraph reports.
“Slabs of concrete started to fall, there was lots of dust. Water pipes had burst,” stock exchange worker Megha Kapoor told The Telegraph. “I heard a loud cracking sound. I saw a lady unconscious stuck under slab of concrete.”
The same building had been targeted by suicide bombers in 2000; however, authorities do not suspect the collapse was bomb-related.
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