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Spain festival collapse injures hundreds

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More than 300 people have been injured, five seriously, after a section of wooden platform collapsed at an urban sports and music festival in Spain.
It had been packed with people watching a rap artist at the two-day O Marisquiño event in the north-west city of Vigo, in Galicia.
Police confirmed that there were no known fatalities.
Witnesses reported scenes of panic as people many of them teenagers tried to scramble to safety.
Some fell into the sea.
Personal effects such as mobile phones and handbags were left scattered on the ground.
Several emergency teams attended to the injured, and divers were sent into the sea to check that no-one was trapped beneath the structure.

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