Man 'lands on woman' after falling from upper floor at Westfield shopping centre in east London
'I was shopping and all I heard was a thud, thinking someone dropped something,' says witness
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Your support makes all the difference.A man has fallen from an upper floor at a shopping centre in east London, landing on and injuring a woman below.
Police and paramedics were called to Westfield shopping centre in Stratford following the incident on Wednesday afternoon.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said officers were called at 4pm to “reports of a man falling from height and a woman injured”.
Police said the woman's injuries were not life-threatening but could not provide details of the man's condition.
London Ambulance Service (LAS) said both were taken to hospital “as a priority”.
Footage posted on social media showed emergency services crouched over two people lying on the shopping centre’s floor.
Barriers were later erected around the scene.
“I was shopping and all I heard was a thud, thinking someone dropped something,” Daniel Iqbal wrote on Twitter. “I started seeing everyone running to the scene, policewomen was saying ‘put your phones away’.”
An LAS spokeswoman said: “We sent two ambulance crews, an incident response officer, an advanced paramedic and two single responders in cars to the scene. We treated two people at the scene and took them both to hospital as a priority.”
It is unclear what caused the man to fall or which storey he plunged from.
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