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| A crane has collapsed on to a block of flats in Liverpool city centre, forcing the evacuation of the building. | |
| Eight fire crews and a search and rescue unit were called to the scene on Tabley Street just after midday, Merseyside Fire Service said. | Eight fire crews and a search and rescue unit were called to the scene on Tabley Street just after midday, Merseyside Fire Service said. |
| There are no reports of any casualties but crews are still in the process of evacuating the four-storey building. | There are no reports of any casualties but crews are still in the process of evacuating the four-storey building. |
| Eyewitness James Johnson told the BBC the crane had been left "wrapped over the building". | Eyewitness James Johnson told the BBC the crane had been left "wrapped over the building". |
| Mr Johnson, 26, lives in the apartment block opposite the building and witnessed the aftermath. | |
| A full search of the building is being carried out and fire crews are evacuating anyone inside Fire service spokeswoman | |
| "I just heard this huge crash and I just thought they dropped some concrete," he told BBC News. | |
| "But when I looked out of the window I saw the crane wrapped over the top of the building." | |
| A spokeswoman for Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service said the incident was still ongoing. | |
| "We were called at about 1205 BST to say that a crane had collapsed on to a four-storey building on Tabley Street," she said. | |
| "A full search of the building is being carried out and fire crews are evacuating anyone inside." |