Scaffolding collapse injures three

Three people were seriously injured yesterday when scaffolding on a partially built building collapsed, hospital officials and police said. Eyewitnesses said the scaffolding on the building in Milton Keynes, north of London, fell like a "pack of...

Three people were seriously injured yesterday when scaffolding on a partially built building collapsed, hospital officials and police said.

Eyewitnesses said the scaffolding on the building in Milton Keynes, north of London, fell like a "pack of cards".

Thames Valley police said three people had been rescued from the site and taken to hospital.

"We have received three casualties," a spokesman for Milton Keynes General Hospital told Reuters. "All are classed as being seriously injured."

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