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A three-year-old girl is in a critical condition in hospital after falling about 100ft (30m) from an escalator in Liverpool's Primark store. | A three-year-old girl is in a critical condition in hospital after falling about 100ft (30m) from an escalator in Liverpool's Primark store. |
The toddler was travelling up to the third floor with her family when she fell through a gap between the escalators to the lower ground floor. | |
She was taken to hospital where she is said to be suffering from broken bones and internal injuries. | |
The Church Street fashion store was closed after the incident. | |
The shutters of the shop were brought down on Friday afternoon as police and health and safety officers were called to investigate. | |
Merseyside Police said emergency services were called at about 1330 BST and the child was taken by ambulance to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital for treatment. | |
Officers spent the afternoon searching CCTV images and questioning staff and shoppers who may have seen the child fall. | |
We are obviously profoundly shocked and saddened Primark spokesman | |
A spokesman said an investigation was now being carried out by Liverpool City Council and the Health and Safety Executive. | |
A Primark spokesman said: "We are obviously profoundly shocked and saddened to learn of the accident in our Liverpool store this afternoon. | |
"We are doing all we can to assist the authorities in their investigation. | "We are doing all we can to assist the authorities in their investigation. |
"All our thoughts are with the little girl and her family." | "All our thoughts are with the little girl and her family." |
The discount fashion store, which at 84,000 sq ft is one of the biggest in the UK, opened last September after a major redevelopment of what had been a Littlewoods store. | |
It covers five floors and is even larger than the branch on London's Oxford Street. | |
On its opening day, eager shoppers queued around the block to be the first in and crash barriers were erected outside the building to avoid a scrum. |